Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and method of sensing image
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Application No.: US15291399Application Date: 2016-10-12
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Publication No.: US09832400B2Publication Date: 2017-11-28
- Inventor: Yong In Han
- Applicant: Dongbu HiTek, Co. Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Bucheon-si
- Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Dongbu HiTek Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Bucheon-si
- Agency: Central California IP Group, P.C.
- Agent Andrew D. Fortney
- Priority: KR10-2016-0043422 20160408
- Main IPC: H04N5/361
- IPC: H04N5/361 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/365

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a pixel array unit including an active pixel area including active pixels, a first dark area including first dark pixels, and a second dark area including second dark pixels, an offset extractor configured to extract a final dark offset value, and a corrector configured to correct pixel data values of the active pixels based on the final dark offset value. The offset extractor extracts a per-column dark offset value, a global dark offset value, a per-row average, and a per-row noise value, selects one of the extracted per-column dark offset value and global dark offset value, and extracts the final dark offset value from the per-row noise value and either the per-column dark offset value or the global dark offset value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170295330A1 IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD OF SENSING IMAGE Public/Granted day:2017-10-12
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