Image sensor which can adjust brightness information to fall in a predetermined range

An image sensor, comprising:

• an image sensing matrix, comprising at least one image sensing unit, for generating at least one image sensing signal according to a sensed image;
• an analog to digital converter, for converting the image sensing signal to a digital image sensing signal;
• a digital amplifier, configured to adjust the digital image sensing signal to be an adjusted digital image sensing signal according to at least one adjusting parameter and the digital image sensing signal;
• an operational circuit, for computing at least part of brightness of the sensed image sensed by the image sensing unit according to the adjusted digital image sensing signal to generate at least one operational brightness signal;
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• a control circuit, configured to provide the adjusting parameter for at least one row or at least one column of the image sensing units, such that brightness information generated based on brightness values, which corresponds to the operational brightness signal, falls in a predetermined range;
• wherein the image sensing matrix comprises a plurality of the image sensing units and utilizes a plurality of the image sensing units in an image sensing window to sense the image, where the control circuit controls an average of the brightness values corresponding to at least part of the operational brightness signal to fall in the predetermined range, wherein the operational brightness signal corresponds to one row or one column of the image sensing units in the image sensing window.

An image sensor, comprising:

• an image sensing matrix, comprising at least one image sensing unit, for generating at least one image sensing signal according to a sensed image;
• an analog to digital converter, for converting the image sensing signal to a digital image sensing signal;
• a digital amplifier, configured to adjust the digital image sensing signal to be an adjusted digital image sensing signal according to at least one adjusting parameter and the digital image sensing signal;
• an operational circuit, for computing at least part of brightness of the sensed image sensed by the image sensing unit according to the adjusted digital image sensing signal to generate at least one operational brightness signal;
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• a control circuit, configured to provide the adjusting parameter for at least one row or at least one column of the image sensing units, such that brightness information generated based on brightness values, which corresponds to the operational brightness signal, falls in a predetermined range;
• wherein the image sensing matrix comprises a plurality of the image sensing units and utilizes a plurality of the image sensing units in an image sensing window to sense the image, where the control circuit controls a difference of the brightness values corresponding to at least two of the operational brightness signals to fall in the predetermined range, wherein the operational brightness signal corresponds to one row or one column of the image sensing units in the image sensing window.