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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2014
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Byung-Chul Park, Yongin-si, KR;
Won-Baek Lee, Suwon-si, KR;
Byung-Jo Kim, Seoul, KR;
Jin-Ho Seo, Seoul, KR;
Seog-Heon Ham, Suwon-si, KR;
Assignee:
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-Do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of binning pixels in an image sensor including: dividing a pixel array into a plurality of binning areas, wherein each binning area includes (2n)*(2n) pixels, wherein n is an integer equal to or greater than two; and generating binning pixel data in each of the binning areas, wherein the locations of the binning pixel data of each binning area are evenly distributed within the binning area.