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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2022
Applicant:

Intellectual Ventures Ii Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);

Inventors:

Richard Ian Olsen, Truckee, CA (US);

James Gates, Carlsbad, CA (US);

Darryl L. Sato, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC, Wilmington, DE (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01); G02B 3/00 (2006.01); G02B 9/12 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 9/09 (2006.01); H01L 31/0232 (2014.01); H04N 5/341 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 9/097 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/735 (2013.01); G02B 3/0062 (2013.01); G02B 3/0075 (2013.01); G02B 9/12 (2013.01); H01L 27/14618 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14625 (2013.01); H01L 27/14634 (2013.01); H01L 27/14645 (2013.01); H01L 27/14652 (2013.01); H01L 31/0232 (2013.01); H01L 31/02325 (2013.01); H04N 5/2252 (2013.01); H04N 5/2253 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01); H04N 5/335 (2013.01); H04N 5/3415 (2013.01); H04N 5/353 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); H04N 9/04515 (2018.08); H04N 9/04557 (2018.08); H04N 9/09 (2013.01); H04N 9/097 (2013.01); G02B 3/0031 (2013.01); G02B 3/0043 (2013.01); H01L 2924/0002 (2013.01); H04N 2209/049 (2013.01);
Abstract

Digital camera systems and methods are described that provide a color digital camera with direct luminance detection. The luminance signals are obtained directly from a broadband image sensor channel without interpolation of RGB data. The chrominance signals are obtained from one or more additional image sensor channels comprising red and/or blue color band detection capability. The red and blue signals are directly combined with the luminance image sensor channel signals. The digital camera generates and outputs an image in YCrCb color space by directly combining outputs of the broadband, red and blue sensors.


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