Patent ID: 8537241

Claim:
A method for sensing an image of a scene, comprising: receiving incident light at an image sensing device, the image sensing device comprising an array of pixel elements, the array comprising at least two regions of pixels elements, each region comprising one or more pixel elements; providing one or more control parameters, each control parameter modifying the sensitivity of the pixel elements in the array; generating one or more control signals, each control signal for varying a control parameter for a given region of pixel elements of the array, the one or more control signals being generated to vary the sensitivity of the pixels elements on a region by region basis within the array in accordance with the scene; generating output signals at the output of the image sensing device indicative of the pixel data at each pixel element, the pixel data of the array of pixel elements collectively representing the image of the scene; and storing the one or more control signals for each control parameter in one or more memory elements located in the array adjacent to the one or more pixel elements.