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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 17, 2014
Applicant:

Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tiejun Dai, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Junzhao Lei, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2013.01); H01L 27/14601 (2013.01); H04N 5/23241 (2013.01); H04N 5/369 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image sensor system includes an image sensor and a host controller. The image sensor includes a power input terminal, a data terminal, a clock input terminal, and a ground terminal. The host controller is coupled to the power input terminal to provide power to the image sensor, the data terminal to receive analog image data from the image sensor, the clock input terminal to provide a clock signal to the image sensor, and the ground terminal. The ground terminal serves as a common reference between the image sensor and one or more circuits of the host controller. The system also includes logic that is configured to transfer the analog image data from the image sensor to the host controller through the data terminal of the image sensor and to transfer one or more digital control signals between the image sensor and the host controller through the data terminal.


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