Invention Grant
- Patent Title: LWIR sensor with capacitive microbolometer and hybrid visible/LWIR sensor
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Application No.: US16868527Application Date: 2020-05-06
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Publication No.: US11496697B2Publication Date: 2022-11-08
- Inventor: Yibing Michelle Wang , Kwang Oh Kim , Radwanul Hasan Siddique
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Renaissance IP Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/33
- IPC: H04N5/33 ; H04L27/14 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
A pixel for an image sensor includes a microbolometer sensor portion, a visible image sensor portion and an output path. The microbolometer sensor portion outputs a signal corresponding to an infrared (IR) image sensed by the microbolometer sensor portion. The visible image sensor portion outputs a signal corresponding to a visible image sensed by the visible image sensor portion. The output path is shared by the microbolometer and the visible image sensor portions, and is controlled to selectively output the signal corresponding to the IR image or the signal corresponding to the visible image. The output path may be further shared with a visible image sensor portion of an additional pixel, in which case the output path may be controlled to selectively to also output the signal corresponding to a visible image of the additional pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210274107A1 LWIR SENSOR WITH CAPACITIVE MICROBOLOMETER AND HYBRID VISIBLE/LWIR SENSOR Public/Granted day:2021-09-02
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