US 12,120,472 B2
High sensitivity color image generation using hybrid sensor
Yu-Ju Lin, Hsinchu (TW); Ying-Jui Chen, Hsinchu (TW); Keh-Tsong Li, Hsinchu (TW); Pin-Chung Lin, Hsinchu (TW); Hung-Chih Ko, Hsinchu (TW); and Chi-Cheng Ju, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by MediaTek Inc., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Mar. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/691,043.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/162,091, filed on Mar. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303515 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 9/64 (2023.01); H04N 5/30 (2006.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 9/646 (2013.01) [H04N 5/30 (2013.01); H04N 23/10 (2023.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of generating a full-frame color image, comprising:
receiving sensor data from a hybrid sensor, the sensor data comprising partial-frame chromatic data of a plurality of chromatic channels and partial-frame color-insensitive data;
generating full-frame color-insensitive data based on the partial-frame color-insensitive data; and
generating the full-frame color image based on the full-frame color-insensitive data and the partial-frame chromatic data,
wherein the full-frame color image comprises a plurality of full-frame chromatic images each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of chromatic channels, and wherein the generating of the full-frame color image comprises generating each of the plurality of full-frame chromatic images using a colorization process based on the full-frame color-insensitive data and the partial-frame chromatic data of the respective chromatic channel.