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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2008
John F. Hamilton, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Compton, LeRoy, NY (US);
Bruce H. Pillman, Rochester, NY (US);
John F. Hamilton, Jr., Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Compton, LeRoy, NY (US);
Bruce H. Pillman, Rochester, NY (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for image capture includes providing an image sensor having at least one segmented row of pixels, wherein the at least one segmented row comprises at least first and second disjoint row subsets of pixels, wherein the reset and readout operations for each row subset are controllably independent of each other; timing the exposure interval of the first subset to be photographically centered with the exposure interval of the second subset; and combining the image data obtained from the first and second row subset exposures to form a row of pixel values.