Invention Grant
US09277146B2 Image sensor, method of operating the same, and system including the image sensor
有权
图像传感器,其操作方法以及包括图像传感器的系统
- Patent Title: Image sensor, method of operating the same, and system including the image sensor
- Patent Title (中): 图像传感器,其操作方法以及包括图像传感器的系统
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Application No.: US14452051Application Date: 2014-08-05
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Publication No.: US09277146B2Publication Date: 2016-03-01
- Inventor: Byung-Joon Baek , Young-Jin Kim , Tae Chan Kim
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: KR10-2013-0095161 20130812
- Main IPC: H04N5/353
- IPC: H04N5/353 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N9/04 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/14

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a pixel array having a plurality of layers and a control unit. Each of the plurality of layers including pixels having a photoelectric conversion element and a transmission transistor therein. The photoelectric conversion element is configured to collect charges during an associated charge collection time period and the transmission transistor is configured to transmit the charges to a respective floating diffusion node at an end of the charge collection time period. The control unit configured to individually instruct the transmission transistors associated with different ones of the layers to transmit the charges to the respective floating diffusion nodes such that the charge collection time periods associated with the photoelectric conversion elements implemented in at least two of the layers differs in length.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150042855A1 IMAGE SENSOR, METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME, AND SYSTEM INCLUDING THE IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2015-02-12
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