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This paper presents an angle-insensitive light sensor by means of two pairs of Dual-Photodiodes (PDs) for X-axis and Y-axis direction respectively. A time-interleaved architecture is proposed to support 4-Channels (CHs) simultaneous flicker detection, sharing two Trans-Impedance-Amplifiers (TIAs) and one 16-bit third-order incremental ΔΣADC. 7-Levels Auto-Gain-Control (AGC) is implemented to extend dynamic range and Dark-PD is introduced to track and cancel temperature-dependent offset. The chip was fabricated using 180nm CMOS technology. Test results show that the proposed light sensor achieves -30°~30° flat angular response with +/-67° field-of-view (FOV). AGC extends input dynamic range to 138dB(0.012~103klux), with linearity error of 0.169%. Up to 610Hz 4-Channels flicker can be detected in parallel at 0.053lux light input. Dark offset variation is controlled within +/-1.2LSB in the range of -30°C~85°C. The chip draws 212uA from 1.8V supply and chip area is 2mm x 0.65mm