Invention Application
- Patent Title: IMAGE SENSOR
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Application No.: US17509696Application Date: 2021-10-25
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Publication No.: US20220303509A1Publication Date: 2022-09-22
- Inventor: JUNGHYUNG PYO , KYUNGHO LEE
- 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
- Priority: KR10-2021-0036431 20210322
- Main IPC: H04N9/04
- IPC: H04N9/04 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/351

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a pixel array with pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction, intersecting the first direction. Each of the pixels includes a photodiode, a pixel circuit below the photodiode, and a color filter on or above the photodiode. A logic circuit acquires a pixel signal from the pixels through a plurality of column lines extending in the second direction. The pixels include color pixels and white pixels, the number of white pixels being greater than the number of color pixels. The pixel circuit includes a floating diffusion in which charges of the photodiode are accumulated and transistors outputting a voltage corresponding to amounts of charges in the floating diffusion. Each of the color pixels shares the floating diffusion with at least one neighboring white pixel, adjacent thereto in the second direction, among the white pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US11616934B2 Image sensor Public/Granted day:2023-03-28
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