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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Jun Funakoshi, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Inventors:
Jun Funakoshi, Kawasaki, JP;
Katsuyoshi Yamamoto, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2006.01); H04N 9/083 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention is an image sensor having a pixel array, which arranges pixels having photoelectric conversion circuits in rows and columns; and a pixel selecting circuit for selecting each pixel, wherein the pixel selecting circuit selects pixels of all rows and/or pixels of all columns, and selects a pixel signal at every plural pixels among the selected pixel signals, and pixels selected from a pixel block of a plurality of rows and columns within the pixel array are dispersed within this pixel block.