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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2014
Applicants:

Rayence Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Vatech Ewoo Holdings Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Jari Pekka Kosonen, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Sung Kyn Heo, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignees:

Rayence Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

VATECH EWOO Holdings Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/374 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention provides an image sensor comprising: pixels arranged along a plurality of row lines and column lines in a matrix form; a scan driving unit for selecting the row lines in the unit of n lines in a binning mode; and a read circuit unit for outputting n*m binning signals generated by sampling n*1 signals output in every column line according to the selection of the row lines and averaging the sampled n*1 signals in the unit of m neighboring column lines, wherein each of n and m is a natural number larger than or equal to 2.


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