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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2019
Applicant:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jon S. McElvain, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
Gregory John Ward, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/35581 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01); H04N 9/04551 (2018.08);
Abstract
Imaging methods and devices with pixels divided into pixel groups are disclosed. A pixel group-based global shutter and pixel group-wise staggered long and short exposure followed by readout of two samples per pixel are presented. Example methods and devices for a Bayer color filter array divided into groups of n×n pixels are provided.