Television – Camera – system and detail – Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
Reexamination Certificate
2011-08-16
2011-08-16
Ye, Lin (Department: 2622)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
C348S221100, C348S231300, C348S234000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07999858
ABSTRACT:
The application provides techniques for obtaining a relatively high dynamic range image of a scene using a relatively low dynamic range image sensor exposed to incident light from the scene for capturing an image. The image sensor has a multiplicity of light-sensing elements in an array and each light sensing element has a particular one of a plurality of sensitivity levels to incident light in accordance with a predetermined sensitivity pattern for the array of light-sensing elements and has a response function. Each light sensing element is responsive to incident light from the scene for producing a captured image brightness value at a corresponding one of a multiplicity of pixel positions of a pixel position array. Each one of the multiplicity of pixel positions corresponds to a particular one of the plurality of sensitivity levels of the light sensing elements.
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Mitsunaga Tomoo
Nayar Shree K.
Baker & Botts L.L.P.
Sony Corporation
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
Ye Lin
Yoder, III Chriss S
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