Image processing apparatus, image processing method and manufacturing apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKenichi Okumura
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus having a plurality of Bayer arrays each including 4 pixels sharing a common electrode connected to a vertical signal line wherein: each of the pixels has a pixel electrode connected to a horizontal signal line; and the location of each of the horizontal signal lines and the location of each of the pixel electrodes each connected to one of the horizontal signal lines are determined so that the locations in a neighboring Bayer array are a mirror image of counterpart locations in another Bayer array adjacent to the neighboring Bayer array.
Claims14
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a plurality of pixels;
- a plurality of pixel arrays, wherein each of the pixel arrays includes a plurality of pixels;
- a plurality of vertical signal lines;
- a plurality of horizontal signal lines;
- a plurality of common electrodes, wherein each pixel array is associated with one of the common electrodes, and wherein each of the common electrodes is connected to a vertical signal line;
- a plurality of pixel electrodes, wherein each pixel in the plurality of pixels is associated with a pixel electrode, wherein each of the pixel electrodes connects a pixel to one of the horizontal signal lines, wherein neighboring pixels in a horizontal direction within any one of the pixel arrays are connected to different horizontal signal lines, and wherein neighboring pixels in a horizontal direction in horizontally adjacent pixel arrays are connected to the same horizontal signal line.
An image processing method, comprising:
- providing an image processing apparatus having a plurality of pixels grouped in a plurality of Bayer arrays;
- connecting each pixel within each of the Bayer arrays to a vertical signal line using a common electrode;
- connecting each pixel in the plurality of pixels to one of a plurality of horizontal signal lines, wherein neighboring pixels in a horizontal direction within any one of the pixel arrays are connected to different horizontal signal lines, and wherein neighboring pixels in a horizontal direction in horizontally adjacent pixel arrays are connected to the same horizontal signal line.
An image processing apparatus having a plurality of Bayer arrays each including 4 pixels sharing a common electrode connected to a vertical signal line wherein:
- each of said pixels has a pixel electrode connected to a horizontal signal line;
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- the location of each of said horizontal signal lines and the location of each of said pixel electrodes each connected to one of said horizontal signal lines are determined so that each of said locations in a neighboring Bayer array are a mirror image of each counterpart location in another Bayer array adjacent to said neighboring Bayer array, wherein each horizontal signal line is connected to a plurality of pixels, wherein a first set of the plurality of pixels is associated with a first color, and wherein a second set of the plurality of pixels is associated with a second color, wherein said 4 pixels included in each of said Bayer arrays are an R pixel, a G1 pixel, a G2 pixel and a B pixel, each of said horizontal signal lines is stretched in a horizontal direction referred to as the direction of every row, each of said vertical signal lines is stretched in a vertical direction referred to as the direction of every column, said R pixel in each of a first plurality of the Bayer arrays is connected to said G1 pixel of an adjacent Bayer array included in a second plurality of Bayer arrays by a first horizontal signal line, and said G2 pixel in each of the first plurality of Bayer arrays is connected to said B pixel of an adjacent Bayer array included in the second plurality of Bayer arrays by a second horizontal signal line.
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