Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Color image sampling and reconstruction
- Patent Title (中): 彩色图像采样和重建
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Application No.: US13244336Application Date: 2011-09-24
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Publication No.: US08866945B2Publication Date: 2014-10-21
- Inventor: Hiok Nam Tay
- Applicant: Hiok Nam Tay
- Main IPC: H04N9/083
- IPC: H04N9/083 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
An image capture apparatus that includes an array of color filters for green, red, and magenta colors arranged over a semiconductor substrate in the manner of a primary color Bayer pattern except a magenta color replaces the blue color. Light passing through the magenta color filter is integrated separately in a magenta pixel for a shallow photodiode signal and a deep photodiode signal in a first photodiode and a deeper second photodiode in the substrate, respectively. A mezzanine photodiode may be disposed between the first and second photodiodes and held at a fixed voltage level or reset multiple times during charge integration. A red pixel value for the magenta pixel is a function of the deep photodiode signal and an adjacent red pixel's red pixel signal. A minimum exists in its derivative with respect to the former at a value of the former that varies with the latter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120075511A1 COLOR IMAGE SAMPLING AND RECONSTRUCTION Public/Granted day:2012-03-29
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