A mobile terminal includes a lens/filter combination, a single-chip camera module
and an integrated mobile terminal processor. The lens/filter combination responds
to an image, for providing an optical image signal. The single-chip camera module
responds to the optical image signal, and to an integrated mobile terminal processor
control signal, for performing analog image processing functions (such as correlated
double sampling (CDS) and automatic gain control (AGC)) before an analog-to-digital
conversion (ADC), basic sensor driving and adjustment functions (such as pixel
access, timing and basic automatic exposure control), and digital input/output
(I/O) functions, and providing a sensor data output signal and a single-chip camera
module control bus signal. The integrated mobile terminal processor responds to
the sensor data output signal, and to the single-chip camera module control bus
signal, for performing camera control and data conversion functions, for providing
the integrated mobile terminal processor control signal.
