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IMAGE SENSING METHOD AND IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS

  • US 20140300582A1
  • Filed: 01/22/2014
  • Published: 10/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image sensor, comprising:

  • an image sensing unit array, for sensing an object and comprising a plurality of image sensing units arranged in a sensing matrix with M rows and N columns;

    an image data reading circuit, for reading and outputting image data caught by at least part of the image sensing units; and

    a control unit,for controlling numbers and locations of the image sensing units for each row or each column, from which the image data reading circuit reads the image data;

    for computing a read region that is in the image sensing unit array and corresponds to the object; and

    for controlling the image data reading circuit to read at least part of the image data of the column or the row;

    wherein the part of the column or the row, which is read, comprises the read region.

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