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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 29, 2012
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Hwa-Yong Kang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Young-Kwon Yoon, Seoul, KR;

Young-Sam Yu, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Eun-Soo Chang, Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/343 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/209 (2013.01); H04N 5/23241 (2013.01); H04N 5/343 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); G06T 3/4007 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); H04N 5/23216 (2013.01);
Abstract

Some of pixels in a general image sensor for image capturing are designated as vision pixels used for vision recognition. Optical information obtained only from the vision pixels is used to perform vision recognition in the vision recognition mode. Capturing image data is generated based on optical information obtained from all the pixels in the image data in the image-shooting mode. A digital signal converter that converts optical information obtained only from vision pixels into a digital signal is separately provided in addition to a digital signal converter that converts optical information of all pixels in the image sensor into a digital signal.


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