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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2021
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Daehwa Paik, Seoul, KR;
Seung Hyun Lim, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Jaehong Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Keunyung Byun, Suwon-si, KR;
Jinwoo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Sanghyun Cho, Hwaseong-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Disclosed is an image sensor that includes a pixel array including first pixels sharing a first floating diffusion region and second pixels sharing a second floating diffusion region, a first analog-to-digital converter, a second analog-to-digital converter, and a switch circuit. In a first mode, the first analog-to-digital converter processes the first pixels, and the second analog-to-digital converter processes the second pixels. In the second mode, the first analog-to-digital converter processes a first image component of a pixel signal of the first pixels, and the second analog-to-digital converter processes a second image component of the pixel signal of the first pixels. An HDR image is implemented based on processing results of the first analog-to-digital converter and the second analog-to-digital converter.