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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alok Govil, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2011.01); H04N 5/372 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/345 (2013.01); H04N 5/3456 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H04N 5/37206 (2013.01); H04N 5/37452 (2013.01);
Abstract
A hybrid camera sensor offers efficient image sensing by periodically evaluating pixels at a certain frame rate and disregarding values of pixels that have changed less than a threshold amount. Because only a fraction of pixels in the camera sensor may change values from frame to frame, this can result in faster readout times, which can optionally enable increased frame rates.