Patent Document ID: 8059174
Application ID: 11521883
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An imager system for providing a viewable image having increased dynamic range, said imager system comprising: an image sensor comprising a plurality of sets of pixels arranged into Bayer patterns, said image sensor configured to operate in either an interleaved mode or a non-interleaved mode, each of said plurality of sets of pixels configured to receive one of a plurality of exposures and to generate image data corresponding to said one of said plurality of exposures in said interleaved mode, wherein green pixels within each of said Bayer patterns each receive a different one of said plurality of exposures in said interleaved mode; said each of said plurality of sets of pixels further configured to receive a same exposure and to generate image data corresponding to said same exposure in said non-interleaved mode; wherein said image sensor is configured to output said image data generated by said each of said plurality of sets of pixels as a frame of interleaved image data in said interleaved mode, wherein said image sensor is further configured to output said image data corresponding to said same exposure as a frame of non-interleaved image data in said non-interleaved mode, and wherein said image sensor is further configured to exit said interleaved mode and enter said non-interleaved mode or to exit said non-interleaved mode and enter said interleaved mode in response to a change in a target scene; wherein said plurality of sets of pixels comprise two sets of pixels, and wherein said two sets of pixels are interleaved in a zig-zag Bayer interleave pattern.