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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2009
James E. Adams, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Mrityunjay Kumar, Rochester, NY (US);
Bruce H. Pillman, Rochester, NY (US);
James A. Hamilton, Rochester, NY (US);
James E. Adams, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
Mrityunjay Kumar, Rochester, NY (US);
Bruce H. Pillman, Rochester, NY (US);
James A. Hamilton, Rochester, NY (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An image sensor for capturing a color image comprising a two dimensional array of light-sensitive pixels including panchromatic pixels and color pixels having at least three different color responses, the pixels being arranged in a rectangular minimal repeating unit having at least eight pixels and having at least two rows and two columns, wherein for a first color response, the color pixels having the first color response alternate with panchromatic pixels in at least two directions, and for each of the other color responses there is at least one row, column or diagonal of the repeating pattern that only has color pixels of the given color response and panchromatic pixels.