Patent ID: 7009646

Claim:
A CMOS image sensor circuit, comprising: a CMOS image sensor chip comprising an image sensor portion comprising an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns, and a control portion comprising image sensor logic, said image sensor logic being electrically connected to said image sensor portion, said image sensor logic including row logic associated with each of said rows individually, and chip logic associated with parts of said image sensor portion other than said rows individually, said image sensor portion having a first area and a second area; said chip being formed to have at least a first set of parallel edges including a first edge and a second edge, and a second set of parallel edges, different than said first set of parallel edges, said second set of parallel edges including a third edge and a fourth edge; said image sensor portion including imaging pixels extending between said first edge, said second edge, and said third edge, such that imaging pixels of said first area of said image sensor portion are adjacent said first edge and said third edge of said chip and imaging pixels of said second area of said image sensor portion are adjacent said second edge and said third edge of said chip; said row logic being physically located inside said image sensor portion in place of a plurality of pixels of the array forming said image sensor portion; and a pixel interpolator and said chip driver circuitry located between said first area and said second area of said image sensor portion and said fourth edge of said chip.