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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Applicant:
Himax Imaging Limited, Tainan, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Himax Imaging Limited, Tainan, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01); H04N 5/37457 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image sensor includes an M-shared pixel architecture, an N-shared pixel architecture and a switch unit, wherein M is an integer not smaller than two and N is an integer not smaller than two. The switch unit is coupled between a floating diffusion node of the M-shared pixel architecture and a floating diffusion node of the N-shared pixel architecture.