Patent ID: 7095435
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera, comprising: a pixel digital image sensor for receiving an image from a lens assembly and for generating pixel signal digital data representative of the received image; an image processing circuit connected to the pixel digital image sensor for converting the pixel signal digital data into detector element signal digital data representative of analog detector element image sensor signals that would be generated by a detector element image sensor receiving the image received by the pixel digital image sensor, the image processing circuit operable to convert the pixel signal digital data into detector element signal digital data by retrieving the pixel signal digital data and pixel location data from the pixel digital image sensor, retrieving a detector element image sensor mask containing information representative of a detector element image sensor from a mask memory, mapping each pixel included in the pixel digital image sensor to one of the detector elements included in the detector element image sensor mask using a mapping algorithm, and combining the pixel digital data for all of the pixels mapped to each one of the detector elements to generate the detector element signal digital data.