Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm McDermott, Will & Perry
  • Patent number: 6757015
    Abstract: An image sensing apparatus is provided, in which the charges of four pixels that are adjacent in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction are mixed and output, and combinations of pixel mixings in the horizontal direction are changed at each line, so that signals after four pixels have been mixed are in an offset sampling relation for each line. Furthermore, a color filter of, for example, an RGB primary color stripe arrangement is provided such that three independent color signals can be attained in both a still picture image sensing (all pixel readout) mode and in a moving picture image sensing (four pixel mixing readout) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Inokuma, Toshiya Fujii, Shinichi Tashiro