Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor with data buffer clusters
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Application No.: US17952973Application Date: 2022-09-26
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Publication No.: US12028632B2Publication Date: 2024-07-02
- Inventor: Inje Jeong , Jaeha Eom , Sujong Jang , Younghun Han
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Priority: KR 20210164990 2021.11.26 KR 20220058544 2022.05.12
- Main IPC: H04N25/71
- IPC: H04N25/71 ; H04N25/771 ; H04N25/772

Abstract:
An image sensor includes an analog-to-digital conversion circuit that receives pixel signals from column lines, respectively, and converts the pixel signals into first pixel values, respectively. Data buffer clusters correspond to enable signals transferred from a timing controller, respectively, and output second pixel values. Each of the data buffer clusters stores first pixel values, which correspond to some column lines consecutively arranged among the column lines, among the first pixel values and output stored pixel values as some second pixel values among the second pixel values in response to a corresponding enable signal. A digital processing circuit performs digital processing on the second pixel values output from the data buffer clusters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230171519A1 IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2023-06-01
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