Patent ID: 8081247

Claim:
A method of improving image quality output from an image sensor on a serial communication channel, the method comprising: acquiring image data within a color pixel array; reading out a first portion of the image data from a first group of two or more pixels all storing data of a first color; and reading out a second portion of the image data from a second group of two or more pixels all storing data of a second color different from the first color, wherein the first portion is readout prior to reading out any of the second portion; serially exporting the first portion of the image data off-chip of the image sensor to the serial communication channel; and serially exporting the second portion of the image data off-chip of the image sensor to the serial communication channel after serially exporting all of the first portion, wherein the first group comprises pixels of the first color within a first row of the color pixel array and the second group comprises pixels of the second color also within the first row of the color pixel array.