Abstract:
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor including a plurality of unit pixels, each unit pixel including two or more individual pixels, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire a first image frame from the image sensor, determine a photographing environment of the electronic device, based on the first image frame, and, in response to the photographing environment corresponding to a first photographing environment, control the image sensor to acquire analog data through the individual pixels, and provide first digital data digitally converted from the analog data with first sensitivity, and second digital data digitally converted from the analog data with second sensitivity which is higher than the first sensitivity, and acquire a second image frame which follows the first image frame, based on the first digital data and the second digital data.
Abstract:
According to an embodiment disclosed in this specification, an electronic device may include a camera including an image sensor, a display panel, a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) that drives the display panel at a first frame rate, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the camera, the display panel, the DDI, and the memory. The DDI may drive the display panel in a plurality of cycles to output one frame corresponding to the first frame rate. The camera may perform exposure of the image sensor in a section, in which one or more lines among lines constituting the display panel do not emit light, in the plurality of cycles. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to determine illuminance around the electronic device using image data according to the exposure. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible.
Abstract:
An image sensor is provided which includes a pixel array, a memory for storing setting information received from an external device of the image sensor, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate an image using a signal sensed by the pixel array based on the setting information stored in the memory.
Abstract:
According to an embodiment, an electronic device may include an image sensor including a plurality of unit pixels, and at least one processor electrically connected with the image sensor. Each unit pixel may include PDs disposed under a micro lens and having a 2×2 arrangement, that is, a TL, a TR, a BL, and a BR. The at least one processor may acquire a first image frame from the image sensor, determine an operation mode of the image sensor based on the first image frame, and may perform AF of an H direction by using TL, BL, or TL+BL AF data and TR, BR, or TR+BR AF data, or may perform AF of a V direction by using TL, TR, or TL+TR AF data and BL, BR, or BL+BR AF data according to an operation mode of the image sensor. Various other embodiments understood through the specification are possible.
Abstract:
An electronic device may include an image sensor, a processor, and a memory. The image sensor may include at least one photo diode, a transfer gate connecting the at least one photo diode to a first node (FD1 node), a first capacitor connected to the first node and having first capacitance, a dynamic range gate (DRG) connected between the first node and a second node (FD2 node), a second capacitor connected to the second node and having second capacitance, and a micro controller unit. Other various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.
Abstract:
A method and an electronic device are provided in which, in a first unit pixel of an image sensor, a first analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) is performed by reading out a first photodiode (PD) group and a second PD group that is adjacent to the first PD group in a first direction. A second ADC is performed by reading out a third PD group that is adjacent to the first PD group in a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. A third ADC is performed by reading out a fourth PD group that is adjacent to the second PD group in the second direction. A first phase difference in the second direction is detected based on the first ADC, the second ADC, and the third ADC. A second phase difference in the first direction is detected based on the second ADC and the third ADC.
Abstract:
According to certain embodiments, an image sensor including a pixel, the pixel including a micro lens, a plurality of photodiodes, and a color filter disposed between the plurality of photodiodes and the micro lens; a processor operatively connected to the image sensor; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores one or more instructions that, when executed by the image sensor, cause the image sensor to perform a plurality of operations, the plurality of operations comprising: determining whether the image sensor is in a high-resolution mode; when the image sensor is in the high-resolution mode, calculating a disparity based on signals detected from the plurality of photodiodes; when the disparity is not greater than a threshold value, applying a first remosaic algorithm to the signals; and when the disparity is greater than the threshold value, applying a second remosaic algorithm to the signals.
Abstract:
According to various embodiments, an electronic device includes an image sensor, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to control the electronic device to: obtain a plurality of image frames including external light and an external object at a first designated frame rate using the image sensor, based on a capturing signal; identify a frequency of a flicker related to the external light source; generate first section images for at least a part of a time for which the plurality of image frames are obtained using frames selected from the plurality of image frames corresponding to a second designated frame rate based at least on the frequency, the second designated frame rate being lower than the first designated frame rate; generate second section images for at least a part of the time for which the plurality of image frames are obtained in response at least to a designated input using image frames obtained at the first designated frame rate after the designated input from among the plurality of image frames; and generate moving image data including at least the first section images and the second section images.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electronic device including an image sensor including a lens, a pixel array configured to convert light collected through the lens into an electric signal and to output the electric signal, a readout circuit configured to convert electric signals sequentially received for each row of the pixel array into pixel data and to output the pixel data, a memory, and a controller configured to control the pixel array, the readout circuit and the memory, and a processor electrically connected to the image sensor. The controller is configured to generate a frame by integrating the pixel data sequentially received from the readout circuit, generate a profile regarding flickering of the collected light using the generated frame and another frame generated prior to the generated frame, and store the generated profile in the memory, obtain a profile set including profiles corresponding to a plurality of frames from the memory, and transfer the generated frame and the obtained profile set to the processor.
Abstract:
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor and at least one processor connected via at least one interface to the image sensor. The image sensor may obtain first image data corresponding to an N-th frame, and provide, together with the first image data obtained, to the at least one processor via the at least one interface, configuration information of second image data corresponding to an N+k-th frame which is to be provided subsequent to the N-th frame. The N and the k may be natural numbers.