Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging unit
- Patent Title (中): 成像单位
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Application No.: US11933577Application Date: 2007-11-01
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Publication No.: US07782370B2Publication Date: 2010-08-24
- Inventor: Kanako Sugawara , Akifumi Tabata
- Applicant: Kanako Sugawara , Akifumi Tabata
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hoya Corporation
- Current Assignee: Hoya Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2006-299367 20061102
- Main IPC: H04N5/235
- IPC: H04N5/235 ; H04N9/083

Abstract:
According to the present invention, an imaging unit, comprising an imaging device, an imaging device driver, and a signal-processing block, is provided. The imaging device has pixels which are arranged in a first direction. The pixels are alternately and repeatedly covered with N1 kinds of different color filters along the first direction. The imaging device driver drives the imaging device. N1*N2 pixels successively arranged in the first direction are defined as a pixel block. The imaging device driver orders the N1 pixels covered with the different color filters in the pixel block to output pixel signals when a first output method with thinning out is carried out. The signal-processing block averages the pixel signals output from a plurality of the pixel blocks for every color of the color filter
Public/Granted literature
- US20080106631A1 IMAGING UNIT Public/Granted day:2008-05-08
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