Television – Camera – system and detail – Solid-state image sensor
Reexamination Certificate
2003-08-27
2008-05-27
Ometz, David (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Solid-state image sensor
C348S311000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07379106
ABSTRACT:
A pixel-differentiated CCD imager architecture may include: a plurality of photo-sensing pixels arranged in a matrix, each pixel being classified according to type from among a plurality of photo-sensing pixel types; and read circuitry controllable to respectively read one or more of a second type of pixel independently of reading a first type of pixel, the reading of one or more first type pixels representing a sampling of fewer than all of the plurality of pixels, the sampling being obtainable without having to read all of the plurality of pixels. A related method and digital camera may include features similar to elements of the pixel-differentiated CCD imager architecture.
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Bean Heather Noel
Robins Mark Nelson
Hewlett--Packard Development Company, L.P.
Khan Usman
Ometz David
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