Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pixel sensor having multiple photodiodes
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Application No.: US16453538Application Date: 2019-06-26
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Publication No.: US11463636B2Publication Date: 2022-10-04
- Inventor: Andrew Samuel Berkovich , Xinqiao Liu , Song Chen , Nicholas Daniel Trail , Michael Patrick Schaub
- Applicant: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H03M1/18

Abstract:
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a plurality of photodiodes, one or more charge sensing units, one or more analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and a controller. The controller is configured to: enable the each photodiode to generate charge in response to a different component of the incident light; transfer the charge from the plurality of photodiodes to the one or more charge sensing units to convert to voltages; receive a selection of one or more quantization processes of a plurality of quantization processes corresponding to a plurality of intensity ranges; based on the selection, control the one or more ADCs to perform the selected one or more quantization processes to quantize the voltages from the one or more charge sensing units to digital values representing components of a pixel of different wavelength ranges; and generate a pixel value based on the digital values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200007800A1 PIXEL SENSOR HAVING MULTIPLE PHOTODIODES Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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