Patent ID: 11924545
Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 3:
4. The image sensor unit of claim 1, further comprising at least one second pixel in a second row of pixels capable of generating 2D-color information of the object based the first light reflected from the object and capable of generating 3D-depth information of the object based on the second light reflecting from the object, the second row being different from the first row, and
wherein the controller is further configured to control the 2D pixel array to output the 2D-color information and the 3D-depth information for the object by selecting the at least one second pixel in the second row to output the 2D-color information and to output the 3D-depth information while at least one second pixel is selected.