US 12,407,923 B2
Image sensor and operating method of image sensor
Junho Kim, Suwon-si (KR); Jae-Heung Lim, Suwon-si (KR); Gihoan Cho, Suwon-si (KR); and Sunyong Lee, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Aug. 25, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/456,017.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2023-0029411 (KR), filed on Mar. 6, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0305899 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. H04N 23/60 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H04N 25/79 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/665 (2023.01) [H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/80 (2023.01); H04N 25/79 (2023.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image sensor, comprising:
a pixel array including a plurality of pixels;
an image data generation circuit configured to generate first image data based on signals of the plurality of pixels and to output the first image data; and
an image data translation circuit configured to generate second image data based on translating the first image data and to output the second image data to an external host device,
wherein the image data generation circuit is configured to operate in a vertical blank interval and a frame interval alternately and is configured to
not output the first image data during the vertical blank interval, and
output one frame of the first image data during the frame interval,
wherein the image data translation circuit is configured to perform a preparation operation associated with translating a frame of the first image data into a frame of the second image data in a next frame interval, the preparation operation performed during the vertical blank interval, and
wherein, when setting information is received from the external host device, the image data translation circuit is configured to adjust a timing to start a next preparation operation.