Patent ID: 7148919

Claim:
A method for capturing video and still images, the method comprising steps of: exposing at least one sensor to incident light during an exposure window to producing an image, wherein an exposure window is the period of time between consecutive resets of the at least one sensor; generating video data from the exposed at least one sensor prior to the end of the exposure window, the video data being representative of the image, wherein generating video data includes a first reading out of pixels from the at least one sensor during a first period of time substantially prior to the end of the exposure window; and generating still image data from the exposed at least one sensor, the still image data being representative of the image, wherein generating still image data includes a second reading out of pixels from the at least one sensor during a second period of time substantially at the end of the exposure window such that the first reading out of pixels and the second reading out of pixels both occur within the same exposure window occurring between the consecutive resets of the at least one sensor.