Image processing system

An image processing system comprising:

• an image sensor including
• a pixel array,
• the pixel array including
• a plurality of pixels having a Bayer pattern,
• the image sensor being configured to
• output a first image signal including
• a plurality of pixel signals output from the plurality of pixels, wherein
• the plurality of pixels are repeatedly arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, and
• in the first image signal, each of the plurality of pixel signals is spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the first direction by a first interval and spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the second direction by the first interval,
• wherein
• the pixel array includes:
• a first pixel,
• a second pixel,
• a third pixel, and
• a fourth pixel arranged along the second direction;
• a fifth pixel,
• a sixth pixel,
• a seventh pixel, and
• an eighth pixel, arranged in the first direction from the first to the fourth pixels and arranged along the second direction;
• a ninth pixel,
• a tenth pixel,
• an eleventh pixel, and
• a twelfth pixel arranged in the first direction from the fifth to the eighth pixels and arranged along the second direction;
• a thirteenth pixel,
• a fourteenth pixel,
• a fifteenth pixel, and
• a sixteenth pixel arranged in the first direction from the ninth to the twelfth pixels and arranged along the second direction;
• a seventeenth pixel,
• an eighteenth pixel,
• a nineteenth pixel, and
• a twentieth pixel arranged in the first direction from the thirteenth to the sixteenth pixels and arranged along the second direction;
• and
• a twenty-first pixel,
• a twenty-second pixel,
• a twenty-third pixel, and
• a twenty-fourth pixel arranged in the first direction from the seventeenth pixel to the twentieth pixels and arranged along the second direction, wherein
• the image sensor further includes:
• a first analog-to-digital converter connected to the first, the fifth, the ninth, the thirteenth, the seventeenth, and the twenty-first pixels;
• a second analog-to-digital converter connected to the second, the sixth, the tenth, the fourteenth, the eighteenth, and the twenty-second pixels;
• a third analog-to-digital converter connected to the third, the seventh, the eleventh, the fifteenth, the nineteenth, and the twenty-third pixels;
• and
• a fourth analog-to-digital converter connected to the fourth, the eighth, the twelfth, the sixteenth, the twentieth, and the twenty-fourth pixels, wherein
• the first to the twenty-fourth pixels respectively output a first pixel signal to a twenty-fourth pixel signal, wherein
• the first analog-to-digital converter is configured to
• output a first binning signal by performing binning based on the first pixel signal and a ninth pixel signal, and
• output a second binning signal by performing binning based on a fifth pixel signal and a thirteenth pixel signal, wherein
• the second analog-to-digital converter is configured to output
• a third binning signal by performing binning based on a second pixel signal and a tenth pixel signal, and
• output a fourth binning signal by performing binning based on a sixth pixel signal and a fourteenth pixel signal, wherein
• the third analog-to-digital converter is configured to output
• a fifth binning signal by performing binning based on an eleventh pixel signal and a nineteenth pixel signal, and
• output a sixth binning signal by performing binning based on a fifteenth pixel signal and a twenty-third pixel signal, and wherein
• the fourth analog-to-digital converter is configured to output
• a seventh binning signal by performing binning based on a twelfth pixel signal and a twentieth pixel signal, and
• output an eighth binning signal by performing binning based on a sixteenth pixel signal and a twenty-fourth pixel signal.

An image processing system comprising:

• an image sensor including a pixel array, the pixel array including a plurality of pixels having a Bayer pattern, the image sensor being configured to output a first image signal including a plurality of pixel signals output from the plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of pixels are repeatedly arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction, and in the first image signal, each of the plurality of pixel signals is spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the first direction by a first interval and spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the second direction by the first interval;
• and
• a host configured to perform image processing on an image signal received from the image sensor,
• wherein the pixel array further includes:
• a first pixel disposed in a (k)th (k being a natural number) row and a (j)th (j being a natural number) column;
• a second pixel disposed in a (k+2)th row and the (j)th column;
• a third pixel disposed in the (k+2)th row and a (j+2)th column;
• and
• a fourth pixel disposed in a (k+4)th row and the (j+2)th column,
• wherein the first to the fourth pixels respectively output a first pixel signal, a second pixel signal, a third pixel signal, and a fourth pixel signal,
• wherein the image sensor is configured to output a first binning signal by performing binning based on the first pixel signal and the second pixel signal, output a second binning signal by performing binning based on the third pixel signal and the fourth pixel signal, and output a second image signal based on the first binning signal and the second binning signal,
• wherein the host includes:
• a memory configured to store at least one instruction;
• and
• a processor configured to perform the at least one instruction stored in the memory,
• wherein the at least one instruction, when executed, causes the processor to output a third image signal including a plurality of interpolation signals by interpolating the second image signal in accordance with a selected mode, each of the plurality of interpolation signals being spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the first direction by a second interval and spaced apart from a signal adjacent thereto in the second direction by the second interval.