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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:
Nov. 21, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2014
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventor:

Woo-Seok Choi, Seoul, KR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 5/367 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/3452 (2013.01); H04N 5/3456 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 5/367 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus and method are provided. In the method, an image sensor including first pixels for detecting an image and second pixels for detecting a different type of signals, reads out values from at least one of the second pixels and at least one the first pixels, based on a predetermined rule, outputs a first sampling image, based on the read out pixels, restores values of the at least one of the second pixels to be image pixel values for locations of the at least one of the second pixels included in the first sampling image, outputs a restored image based on the restored values, performs binning on pixels of the restored image using a predetermined method; and outputs a reduced resolution image with a resolution reduced at a predetermined rate from the restored image, based on the binning.


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