Patent ID: 8179460

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an image sensor comprising an array of pixel cells for detecting an image and being configured to read out pixel signals, each corresponding to an amount of light detected by one of said pixel cells, and an analog-to-digital converter for converting said pixel signals to pixel data; a timing and control device for controlling the readout of said pixel signals, wherein said pixel signals collectively represent an image and sets of said pixel data are output from said sensor with blanking intervals being between at least some of said sets of pixel data, and wherein at least two of said blanking intervals between output sets of pixels have different durations; a timing device for outputting a current time slot that increments at a predetermined interval; a memory device for correlating each row of said pixel cells to at least one of said increments of said time slot; and a readout control device configured to output a readout signal to said sensor, said readout signal identifying a respective one of said rows of pixel cells to said sensor based on said current time slot, said sensor reading out said pixels signals of said respective one of said rows in response to said readout signal, wherein said memory device comprises a lookup table correlating each row of said pixel cells to at least one of said increments of said time slot.