Patent ID: 9456160
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image sensor comprising: a pixel array comprising a plurality of unit pixels in a matrix having rows and columns; a sensing line connected to one or more output stages of or in one of the columns; a binning sampling unit configured to output a binning sampling signal according to an average of signals from two or more unit pixels among the unit pixels in a corresponding one of the columns; and an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the binning sampling signal to a digital signal, wherein the two or more unit pixels have different exposure times and are of a same pixels, the signal from each of the two or more unit pixels is a reset sensing signal or an image sensing signal, the reset sensing signal is a signal from the unit pixel when the unit pixel is reset, and the image sensing signal is a signal from the unit pixel in accordance with an image signal, the binning sampling unit comprises: the first averaging unit comprises: