IMAGE SENSOR AND METHOD FOR READING OUT PIXELS OF THE IMAGE SENSOR

摘要

Image sensor, which comprises a plurality of pixels arranged as a pixel array with rows and columns and at least one read-out arrangement for reading out the pixels row by row. The columns are grouped into blocks (B1,...B64) with a certain number N of columns. Each read-out arrangement comprises N column read out circuits and an addressing circuit for with at least two groups of addressing lines for addressing the blocks. Each read-out arrangement is successively connected to one of the blocks of N columns. The blocks are selectively addressed by the groups of addressing lines in a way that a read-out sequence of blocks addressed by the groups is continuous across all blocks.