Patent ID: 7636117
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera device for recording an image, comprising an image sensor having a plurality of light-sensitive image cells for generating light-dependant image signal values, the image cells being arranged in a plurality of rows and adapted to be selectively addressed in order to read the image signal values to record an image, further comprising a plurality of memory cells for storing identification codes including a unique row identification code for each of said plurality of rows, with each image cell having assigned an identification code that includes the unique row identification code for its associated row, and with the image cells and the memory cells being coupled to one another such that, when an image signal value is read from an image cell, the assigned identification code can also be read, and further comprising a control unit connected to the memory cells and designed to change the identification codes stored in the memory cells after the image signal values are read.