公开(公告)号：US20240251185A1

公开(公告)日：2024-07-25

申请号：US18370417

申请日：2023-09-20

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Youngtae JANG

IPC: H04N25/771 ,  H04N25/75 ,  H04N25/766

CPC classification number: H04N25/771 ,  H04N25/75 ,  H04N25/766

Abstract: An imaging apparatus including: a lens configured to squeeze a real image to generate a squeezed image having a first aspect ratio; and an image sensor including pixels and configured to capture the squeezed image and generate image data corresponding to a final image having a second aspect ratio greater than the first aspect ratio, the squeezed image includes subregions respectively corresponding to the pixels, each of the pixels includes: a first photoelectric conversion element configured to generate a first photocharge packet; a second photoelectric conversion element configured to generate a second photocharge packet; and a floating diffusion node connected to the first photoelectric conversion element and the second photoelectric conversion element, the final image includes: a first pixel section corresponding to a first pixel signal based on the first photocharge packet; and a second pixel section corresponding to a second pixel signal based on the second photocharge packet.

公开(公告)号：US20170318242A1

公开(公告)日：2017-11-02

申请号：US15647969

申请日：2017-07-12

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kyuik CHO ,  Se-Jun KIM ,  Youngtae JANG ,  Jinho SEO ,  Sung-Ho SUH

IPC: H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378

CPC classification number: H04N5/3532 ,  H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378

Abstract: An image sensor capable of implementing a global shutter mode and a rolling shutter mode is provided. The image sensor includes a row driver, a pixel array, an analog-to-digital converter, and an output compensating circuit. The row driver performs decoding for a reset operation, a transfer operation and a read operation, and generates control signals. The pixel array, in a rolling shutter mode, performs the transfer operation on a second row group while the read operation for a first row group is performed, and receives an optical signal, converts the optical signal to electrical signal, and outputs the electrical signal as an image signal in response to the control signals.

公开(公告)号：US20160142653A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-19

申请号：US14797621

申请日：2015-07-13

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kyuik CHO ,  Se-Jun KIM ,  Youngtae JANG ,  Jinho SEO ,  Sung-Ho SUH

IPC: H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/235

CPC classification number: H04N5/3532 ,  H04N5/353 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378

Abstract: An image sensor capable of implementing a global shutter mode and a rolling shutter mode is provided. The image sensor includes a row driver, a pixel array, an analog-to-digital converter, and an output compensating circuit. The row driver performs decoding for a reset operation, a transfer operation and a read operation, and generates control signals. The pixel array, in a rolling shutter mode, performs the transfer operation on a second row group while the read operation for a first row group is performed, and receives an optical signal, converts the optical signal to electrical signal, and outputs the electrical signal as an image signal in response to the control signals.

Abstract translation: 提供能够实现全局快门模式和滚动快门模式的图像传感器。 图像传感器包括行驱动器，像素阵列，模数转换器和输出补偿电路。 行驱动器执行用于复位操作，传送操作和读取操作的解码，并且产生控制信号。 在滚动快门模式下的像素阵列在执行第一行组的读取操作的同时对第二行组执行传送操作，并且接收光信号，将光信号转换为电信号，并输出电信号 作为响应于控制信号的图像信号。

公开(公告)号：US20220377268A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-24

申请号：US17570746

申请日：2022-01-07

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Kyungmin KIM ,  Hoyong NA ,  Jihun SHIN ,  Youngtae JANG

IPC: H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/347 ,  H04N5/369

Abstract: An image sensor includes a first layer including a pixel array region having a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines; and a second layer including a row driver selecting at least a portion of the plurality of row lines, generating pixel control signals driving selected row lines, and outputting the pixel control signals to control signal lines, wherein the selected row lines share the control signal lines, at a branch point of the first layer, the selected row lines receive the pixel control signals from the control signal lines in common, and the pixel control signals simultaneously drive the selected row lines.

公开(公告)号：US20210274121A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-02

申请号：US17032373

申请日：2020-09-25

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Sunjung KIM ,  Sejun KIM ,  Hoyong NA ,  Seongyeop PARK ,  Jihun SHIN ,  Minwoo LEE ,  Youngtae JANG ,  Youngkyun JEONG ,  Jinkyeong HEO

IPC: H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/369

Abstract: An image sensor includes a dual conversion gain pixel to output a high conversion gain signal according to a high conversion gain and output a low conversion gain signal according to a low conversion gain, by adjusting a conversion gain; a scaler to scale a voltage level of the high conversion gain signal; a ramp generator to generate a first ramp signal and a second ramp signal, slopes of the first and second ramp signals being different from each other; a comparator to compare the scaled high conversion gain signal and the first ramp signal to output a first comparison result, and compare the low conversion gain signal and the second ramp signal to output a second comparison result; and a counter to output a first counting result value based on the first comparison result and output a second counting result value based on the second comparison result.