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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2021
Applicant:
Smartsens Technology (Hk) Co., Ltd, Kwun Tong Kowloon, HK;
Inventors:
Xuanping Zhou, Shanghai, CN;
Yaowu Mo, San Jose, CA (US);
Xiaoyong Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Guanjing Ren, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
SmartSens Technology (HK) Co., Ltd., Kwon Tong Kowloon, HK;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/355 (2011.01); H04N 5/374 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/355 (2013.01); H04N 5/36963 (2018.08); H04N 5/374 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image sensor array and circuit design employs a method of black level compensation to address vertical image shading related to global exposure image capture and rolling row by row readout schemes. An image sensor having the invented black level compensation pixel array and method may be incorporated within a digital camera.