Image sensor and electronic device including the same

1. An image sensor, comprising:

a sensing device including a pixel array having a plurality of unit pixels, the sensing device being configured to generate pixel data in response to an incident light signal having information of an image of an object and information of an ambient light;

an image data generation unit configured to generate image data corresponding to the object based on the pixel data; and

an illuminance data generation unit configured to generate illuminance data corresponding to the ambient light based on the pixel data,

the plurality of pixels including first pixels,

the pixel data including first data generated based on light incident on the first pixels,

both the image data and the illuminance data being generated based on the first data,

wherein the pixel array includes a plurality of ambient light sensing units each of which includes at least two adjacent unit pixels among the plurality of unit pixels,

wherein the illuminance data generation unit is configured to select effective sensing units among the plurality of ambient light sensing units by performing a crop operation and a sub-sampling operation on the pixel array, and configured to generate the illuminance data based on effective pixel data, which correspond to the effective sensing units, among the pixel data, and

wherein the illuminance data generation unit includes,

a spectrum response compensation unit configured to extract the effective pixel data among the pixel data, and to generate a luminance data based on the effective pixel data;

an automatic exposure adjustment unit configured to generate an exposure control signal based on the luminance data; and

a calculation unit configured to generate the illuminance data based on the luminance data and the exposure control signal,

the sensing device being configured to control an exposure time of the plurality of unit pixels based on the exposure control signal.

2. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the illuminance data generation unit is configured to generate the illuminance data based on an angle of view of the image sensor that is used for generating the image data.

3. The image sensor of claim 2 , wherein the image data generation unit and the illuminance data generation unit are configured such that the image data and the illuminance data are generated at substantially the same time.

4. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the pixel data includes a plurality of pixel values corresponding to the plurality of unit pixels, respectively, and the luminance data includes a plurality of luminance values corresponding to the effective sensing units, respectively, and

wherein the spectrum response compensation unit is configured to generate a first luminance value corresponding to a first effective sensing unit based on pixel values, which correspond to unit pixels included in the first effective sensing unit, and gains for the unit pixels included in the first effective sensing unit.

5. The image sensor of claim 4 , wherein the illuminance data is proportional to a sum of the plurality of luminance values and inversely proportional to the exposure time of the plurality of unit pixels.

6. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the illuminance data generation unit further includes:

a control unit configured to control the spectrum response compensation unit, the automatic exposure adjustment unit and the calculation unit.

7. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein unit pixels included in a same effective sensing unit include at least one of a red filter, a green filter and a blue filter.

8. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein unit pixels included in a same effective sensing unit include at least one of a yellow filter, a magenta filter and a cyan filter.

9. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the image data generation unit and the illuminance data generation unit are embodied in one data processing unit.

10. The image sensor of claim 1 , further comprising:

a mode selection unit configured to activate one of the image data generation unit and the illuminance data generation unit in response to a mode selection signal.

11. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the sensing unit further includes:

a correlated double sampling (CDS) unit configured to generate a plurality of CDS signals by performing a CDS operation on a plurality of analog pixel signals provided from the pixel array; and

an analog-to-digital conversion unit configured to generate the pixel data by digitalizing the plurality of CDS signals.

12. The image sensor of claim 1 , wherein the image sensor is a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor.

13. An image capture device, comprising:

a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, the pixel array being configured to convert light incident on the pixel array into pixel data, the incident light including light corresponding to an object and ambient light;

an image data generation unit configured to generate image data corresponding to the object based on the pixel data; and

an illuminance data generation unit configured to generate illuminance data corresponding to the ambient light based on the pixel data,

the plurality of pixels including first pixels,

the pixel data including first data generated based on light incident on the first pixels,

both the image data and the illuminance data being generated based on the first data,

wherein the pixel array includes a plurality of ambient light sensing units each of which includes at least two adjacent unit pixels among the plurality of unit pixels,

wherein the illuminance data generation unit is configured to select effective sensing units among the plurality of ambient light sensing units by performing a crop operation and a sub-sampling operation on the pixel array, and configured to generate the illuminance data based on effective pixel data, which correspond to the effective sensing units, among the pixel data, and

wherein the illuminance data generation unit includes,

a spectrum response compensation unit configured to extract the effective pixel data among the pixel data, and to generate a luminance data based on the effective pixel data;

an automatic exposure adjustment unit configured to generate an exposure control signal based on the luminance data; and

a calculation unit configured to generate the illuminance data based on the luminance data and the exposure control signal,

the sensing device being configured to control an exposure time of the plurality of unit pixels based on the exposure control signal.

14. The image capture device of claim 13 , wherein the illuminance data generation unit is configured to generate the illuminance data based on an angle of view of the image sensor that is used for generating the image data.

15. The image capture device of claim 13 , wherein

the pixel array includes a plurality of ambient light sensing units, each of which includes at least two adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels,

the illuminance data generation unit is configured to select, as effective sensing units, a sub set of the plurality of ambient light sensing units by performing a crop operation and a sub-sampling operation on the pixel array, and

the illuminance data generation unit is configured to generate the illuminance data based on effective data, the effective data being data, from among the pixel data, that corresponds to the pixels of the effective sensing units.