Patent ID: 8829409

Claim:
An image sensor, comprising: an array of sensor pixels, having columns and rows wherein a discrete pixel that makes up said array of sensor pixels further comprises; a photosensitive region detecting an image, a region integrating and storing said image, circuitry for providing a pair of identical output signals from each of said discrete pixels that makes up said array of sensor pixels, a plurality of column circuits configured one per each column in said image sensor and further configured to sum one of said pair of identical signals generated in a particular discrete pixel with said signal from each of a group of selected said discrete pixels in a common column for each imager column into a summed column data signal; and a plurality of row circuits configured one per each row in said image sensor and further configured to sum a second of said pair of identical signals generated in said particular discrete pixel with said signal from each of a group of selected said discrete pixels in a common row for each imager row into a summed row data signal.