Patent Document ID: 20020163583
Application ID: 09847968
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A digital imaging system for capturing a color image comprising: an image sensor having; a first group of pixels that have a first light sensitivity for generating color-specific image data on a first scale for a first color; and a second group of pixels that have a second light sensitivity for generating color-specific image data on a second scale for the first color, the first and second group of pixels having a common dynamic range wherein the light sensitivity of the first group of pixels overlaps with the light sensitivity of the second group of pixels; a scaling unit for receiving the image data from the first group of pixels and the image data from the second group of pixels and for outputting the image data on a common scale; a demosaic unit for determining intensity values of the first color using the scaled color-specific image data that is generated from the first and second groups of pixels; and an error correction unit for correcting the demosaiced intensity values of the first color for the demosaiced intensity values of the first color that are outside the common dynamic range of the first and second groups of pixels.