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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2024
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Jaehyoung Park, Suwon-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An electronic device including at least one camera module and a method for controlling the same are provided. The electronic device includes a lens portion, an image sensor configured to covert light passing through the lens portion into a digital signal, and a data computation portion, wherein the image sensor includes a micro lens array portion including a plurality of micro lenses regularly-arranged and configured to focus at least a portion of the light on a specific light receiving element, color filter array portion including one or more types of multiple colors spatially separated and capable of selectively transmitting the light, and a light receiving portion including a plurality of light receiving elements converting incident light, selectively incident from the color filter array portion, into an electrical signal, wherein one micro lens corresponds to one color filter, and the one micro lens corresponds to a plurality of sub-light receiving portions including at least three light receiving elements, wherein the plurality of sub-light receiving portions include a first sub-light receiving portion receiving a first light of the incident light, a second sub-light receiving portion disposed side by side with the first sub-light receiving portion in a first direction and receiving a second light adjacent to the first light of the incident light, and a third sub-light receiving portion disposed in a direction opposite the first direction with respect to the first sub-light receiving portion and receiving a third light adjacent to the first light of the incident light.