Colour and time-of-flight pixel pattern for an image sensor
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsClémence Jamin, Jérôme Vaillant, Alexis Rochas, Yvon Cazaux
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Abstract
An image sensor including a plurality of pixels divided into elementary groups, each elementary group including a plurality of adjacent pixels arranged in a matrix, in rows and columns, each elementary group including first pixels, second and third visible image pixels sensitive in different wavelength ranges and fourth depth image pixels, wherein each row of each elementary group includes at least a fourth pixel.
Claims9
An image sensor comprising a plurality of pixels divided in elementary groups of 5×5 pixels, each elementary group consisting of a plurality of adjacent pixels arranged in a matrix, in rows and columns, each row and each column of each elementary group including exactly:
- a first visible image pixel predominantly sensitive to red light;
- a second visible image pixel predominantly sensitive to blue light;
- two third luminance pixels;
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- a fourth depth image pixel.
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