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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2017
Applicant:
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Richard Scott Johnson, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/3698 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); G06K 9/00281 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); H04N 7/0127 (2013.01);
Abstract
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for pixel binning and readout. The method and apparatus may determine a region of interest and a region of non-interest within an image frame according to a detected feature. In various embodiments, the method and apparatus may readout each row in the region of interest resulting in a high resolution region and combine the pixels within the region of non-interest resulting in a low resolution region.