US 12,356,099 B2
Image sensor and operating method thereof
Min Kyu Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Jong Hyun Ra, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Jin Ho Seo, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Kyoung Mook Lim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Hoe Sam Jeong, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Oct. 3, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/958,525.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2022-0033323 (KR), filed on Mar. 17, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0300486 A1, Sep. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 25/75 (2023.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01); H04N 25/778 (2023.01); H10F 39/00 (2025.01)
CPC H04N 25/75 (2023.01) [H04N 23/125 (2023.01); H04N 25/778 (2023.01); H10F 39/8053 (2025.01)] 17 Claims
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1. An image sensor comprising:
a first sub-pixel array including a plurality of first pixel groups, which are respectively coupled to a plurality of first readout lines extending in a first direction and are adjacent to one another in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and
a plurality of first switches suitable for selectively coupling a plurality of first floating diffusion nodes included in the plurality of first pixel groups, based on a plurality of first control signals,
wherein an arrangement pattern of the plurality of first pixel groups and an arrangement pattern of color filters of the first sub-pixel array are different from each other.