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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
May. 04, 2006
Yoav Lavi, Raanana, IL;
Yoav Lavi, Raanana, IL;
Samsung Electrics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
Various embodiments of the invention comprise imaging systems and methods for an interlaced scan of an image sensor array. An exemplary method is described in which an image sensor array is exposed to light for a period of time to generate voltage levels representative of array pixels. The voltage levels of a first field of the array are scanned, the first field comprising a number of row-pairs of the array. The voltage levels of a second field of the array are also scanned, the second field comprising a different set of row-pairs interlaced with the row-pairs of the first field. A set of image data from the first field and a set from the second field are generated. Various row-pairs may be averaged in generating the sets of image data. Additionally, exemplary imaging systems are described with various configurations for scanning an image sensor array in interlaced mode.