IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR DRIVING SAME

摘要

The present invention provides an image sensor comprising: pixels arranged along a plurality of row lines and column lines in a matrix form; a scan driving unit for selecting the row lines in the unit of n lines in a binning mode; and a read circuit unit for outputting n*m binning signals generated by sampling n*1 signals output in every column line according to the selection of the row lines and averaging the sampled n*1 signals in the unit of m neighboring column lines, wherein each of n and m is a natural number larger than or equal to 2.

主权项

1. An image sensor, comprising:
a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix from along a plurality of row lines and column lines; a scan driver configured to select the row lines with n number line basis in a binning mode; and a readout circuit configured to read n×1 signals from each of the column lines in response to the selection of the row lines, to sample the n×1 signals, to average the n×1 signals with a m number of column line basis, and to output n×m binning signals, wherein n and m are natural numbers of 2 or more.