US 2015/0312461 A1Published application

Image sensor including a pixel having photoelectric conversion elements and image processing device having the image sensor

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsTae Chan KIM, Dong Ki MIN, Kwang Hyun LEE, Yo Hwan NOH, Se Hwan YUN, Dae Kwan KIM, Young Jin KIM, Wang Hyun KIM, Hyuk Soon CHOI

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Abstract

An image sensor according to an example embodiment concepts includes a pixel array including pixels, and each of the pixels includes photoelectric conversion elements. The photoelectric conversion elements independently operating to detect a phase difference. The image sensor further includes a control circuit configured to independently control exposure times of each of the photoelectric conversion elements included in each of the pixels.

Claims21

Dependent claims

An image sensor comprising:

a pixel array including pixels,
wherein each of the pixels includes photoelectric conversion elements which are independently controlled.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/696,859Filed 27 Apr 2015
Priority: KR 10-2014-017809811 Dec 2014
Published: 29 Oct 2015
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Classification21 codes

H04N 25/767
Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors: horizontal readout lines, multiplexers or registers
G02B 3/0056
Characterized by the distribution or form of lenses: arranged along two different directions in a plane, e.g. honeycomb arrangement of lenses
G02B 5/201
Filters: in the form of arrays
H04N 25/46
Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled: by…