Patent attributes
An image sensor may include an array of image pixels formed in rows and columns. Each image pixel in the array may include a photodiode and multiple signal readout paths connected to the photodiode. Each readout path may include a separate floating diffusion node and source follower transistor. The number of signal readout paths simultaneously enabled during an image capture operation may be determined by the exposure level such that the pixel operates with either high or low conversion gain. Several such image pixels of like color in the pixel array may be connected via a shared photodiode interconnection line such that image signals from interconnected pixels may either be binned and read out on a single readout path or read out individual on separate readout paths.
