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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2018
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Andrew Kenneth John McMahon, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image sensor for an electronic device can adjust a scan rate of a reset pointer of a frame relative to a scan rate of a readout pointer of a previous frame. As a result, the image sensor can transition between various readout modes without interrupting image output from the image sensor.