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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2006
Applicant:
Dmitri Jerdev, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventor:
Dmitri Jerdev, South Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/00 (2006.01); G03B 13/34 (2006.01); G03B 9/22 (2006.01); H04N 5/238 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems are disclosed for accelerating the operation of the automatic functions of an imager, e.g. a camera system. The automatic functions may, for example, include one or more of auto-focus, auto-exposure and auto-white balance. A special 'windowing mode' is implemented in which information is acquired from only a subset of defined windows from the full pixel array area in order to set image capture parameters of the imager in accordance with current scene conditions.