发明名称 Using an image sensor for recording frames in fast succession
摘要 An image sensor comprising a row of light sensors registering incident light as electric signals, and a shift register including first and second register places per each light sensor is used for recording frames in fast succession. The image sensor allows for transferring the electric signals from the light sensors to the respective first register places and for shifting the electric signals on selected ones of the first and second register places forward in the shift register. After a first exposure time, the electric signals from each of a plurality of pairs of neighboring light sensors are added on one register place. After a second exposure time, the electric signals from each of the same pairs of neighboring light sensors are added on one register place located between two of the register places on which added electric signals from the first exposure time are present.
申请公布号 US9282266(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.03.08
申请号 US201314102771 申请日期 2013.12.11
申请人 DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V. 发明人 Geisler Reinhard
分类号 H04N5/372;H04N5/335;H04N5/355 主分类号 H04N5/372
代理机构 Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP 代理人 Thomas|Horstemeyer, LLP
主权项 1. A method of using an image sensor for recording frames in fast succession, the image sensor comprising at least one row of light sensors registering incident light as electric signals and at least one shift register including a first and a second register place per each light sensor of the at least one row of light sensors, and configured to transfer the electric signals from the light sensors to the respective first register places and to shift the electric signals on selected ones of the first and second register places forward register place by register place in the shift register, the method comprising: after a first exposure time of the plurality of exposure times, adding the electric signals from each of a plurality of groups of at least two light sensors neighboring in the row of light sensors on one of the first and second register places, and after a second exposure time of the plurality of exposure times, adding the electric signals from each of the same groups of at least two light sensors neighboring in the row of light sensors on one of the first and second register places located between two of the first and second register places on which added electric signals from the first exposure time are present, wherein, after the first exposure time, the electric signals from all light sensors are simultaneously transferred to the respective first register places, and wherein, afterwards, the electric signals from each of the groups of light sensors are added on the foremost first register place belonging to the respective group of light sensors by primarily shifting forward those electric signals which have been transferred to further backward first register places in the shift register.
地址 Cologne DE