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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2013
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Inventor:
Jong-Seok Seo, Seoul, KR;
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/341 (2011.01); H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 5/341 (2013.01); H04N 5/3458 (2013.01); H04N 5/353 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image sensor includes a sensing device including a pixel array having a plurality of unit pixels, the sensing device being configured to generate pixel data in response to an incident light signal having information of an image of an object and information of an ambient light; an image data generation unit configured to generate image data corresponding to the object based on the pixel data; and an illuminance data generation unit configured to generate illuminance data corresponding to the ambient light based on the pixel data.