Patent ID: 9157988
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G01J,G01N,G01S,H01L,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image sensor integrated circuit, comprising: a substrate, a plurality of arrays of image pixels on the substrate; first row control circuitry on the substrate that is configured to operate the image pixels of a first portion of the plurality of arrays of image pixels to capture image data; second row control circuitry on the substrate that is configured to operate the image pixels of a second portion of the plurality of arrays of image pixels to capture additional image data; a first line buffer for storing the image data from the image pixels of the first portion of the plurality of arrays of image pixels; and a second line buffer for storing the image data from the image pixels of the second portion of the plurality of arrays of image pixels, wherein the second line buffer is different from the first line buffer, and the first and second line buffers are respectively capable of storing the image data from the image pixels of the first and second portion of the plurality of arrays of image pixels simultaneously.