Hybrid image sensors with on-chip image deblur

An imaging system, comprising:

• an image sensor including—
• a plurality of CMOS image sensor (CIS) pixels configured to capture CIS data corresponding intensity of light incident on CIS pixels of the plurality of CIS pixels,
• an event vision sensor (EVS) pixel configured to capture EVS data corresponding to events detected in light incident on the EVS pixel, and
• a deblur circuit configured to generate deblurred image data based on the CIS data and an accumulation of events in the EVS data, wherein the deblur circuit is configured to compute the accumulation of events using an event-based double integral model;
• and
• an image signal processor configured to interface with the image sensor and receive the deblurred image data from the image sensor.

A method of operating an image sensor, the method comprising:

• capturing CMOS image sensor (CIS) data using CIS pixels of one or more CIS pixel rows of a pixel array of the image sensor, wherein the CIS data corresponds to intensity of light incident on the CIS pixels over an exposure period;
• capturing event vision sensor (EVS) data using one or more EVS pixels of an EVS pixel row of an event driven sensing array of the image sensor, wherein the EVS data includes events detected by the one or more EVS pixels during an event accumulation period, and wherein each event represents temporal contrast of light incident on the one or more EVS pixels that exceeds a threshold;
• and
• generating deblurred image data, wherein generating the deblurred image data includes deblurring, using a deblur circuit of the image sensor, the CIS data (i) based on the EVS data and (ii) internally within the image sensor.