公开(公告)号：US5109155A

公开(公告)日：1992-04-28

申请号：US557089

申请日：1990-07-23

申请人： Hiroshi Mukainakano ,  Yukito Kawahara ,  Satoshi Machida

发明人： Hiroshi Mukainakano ,  Yukito Kawahara ,  Satoshi Machida

IPC分类号： H04N1/028

CPC分类号： H04N3/1581 ,  H04N3/1575

摘要： The semiconductor image sensing device is comprised of a single crystal substrate of one conductivity type, formed thereon with an array of photodetector 5 for effecting photo-electric conversion, a read-out circuit for sequentially reading out an output signal from each photodetector, an amplifier for voltage-converting the read output signal, and a voltage regulator for providing a constant voltage. The read-out circuit and the photodetectors are driven by a lower voltage supplied from the integrated voltage regulator so as to reduce a switching noise generated in the read-out circuit. S/N ratio of the semiconductor image sensor is improved by reducing the switching noise. Further, the power consumption can be saved by driving the read-out circuit at the lower voltage.

公开(公告)号：US5105450A

公开(公告)日：1992-04-14

申请号：US744663

申请日：1991-08-09

申请人： Tetsuo Yamada

发明人： Tetsuo Yamada

IPC分类号： H01L21/339 ,  H01L27/148 ,  H01L29/762 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/372 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/378

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575 ,  H04N3/1543

摘要： There is provided a charge transfer device comprising a shift register comprised of a plurality of shift stages directly connected to each other, phase pulses for a multi-phase control pulse being delivered to the shift stages, respectively, a transfer control pulse being delivered to the shift register stage arranged at one end of the plurality of shift stages; and a transfer unit having a plurality of transfer electrodes provided in correspondence with the shift stages of the shift register, transfer pulses being delivered from the shift stages of the shift register to the transfer electrodes, respectively, to apply transfer pulses in a predetermined order from the shift stages of the shift register to the transfer electrodes of the transfer unit, respectively, to thereby sequentially transfer signal charges stored below the transfer electrodes in a predetermined direction. In this device, the transfer electrodes are such that transfer electrodes having a large electrode area and transfer electrodes having a small electrode area are arranged one after other, and that they are connected to the respective stages of the shift register in order. It is desirable that the area relationship of the transfer electrodes is such that the ratio between transfer electrodes having a large electrode area and a small electrode area is set to a sufficiently large value. This charge transfer device is combined with a photoelectric conversion unit comprised of a plurality of photosensitive elements to constitute a solid state image pickup device.

公开(公告)号：US5027226A

公开(公告)日：1991-06-25

申请号：US245204

申请日：1988-09-16

申请人： Takehito Nagata ,  Mitsuhiro Kohata ,  Masumitsu Ino

发明人： Takehito Nagata ,  Mitsuhiro Kohata ,  Masumitsu Ino

IPC分类号： H04N1/028

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575 ,  H04N3/1512 ,  H04N3/1581

摘要： A contact type image sensor has a driving circuit part which sequentially drives a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements of a photodetector in blocks which respectively have an arbitrary number of photoelectric conversion elements. The driving circuit part has a pair of shift registers, one for sequentially selecting the block and the other for sequentially selecting each of the photoelectric conversion elements within the selected block.

摘要翻译： 接触式图像传感器具有驱动电路部分，其顺序地驱动分别具有任意数量的光电转换元件的块的光电检测器的多个光电转换元件。 驱动电路部分具有一对移位寄存器，一个用于顺序地选择该块，另一个用于顺序选择所选块内的每个光电转换元件。

公开(公告)号：US4995061A

公开(公告)日：1991-02-19

申请号：US134283

申请日：1987-12-17

申请人： Jaroslav Hynecek

发明人： Jaroslav Hynecek

IPC分类号： G11C27/04 ,  H01L27/148 ,  H04N5/359 ,  H04N5/372

CPC分类号： G11C27/04 ,  H01L27/14831 ,  H04N3/155 ,  H04N3/1575

摘要： A CCD imager cell (36, 38) is formed at a face of a semiconductor substrate (10) and has first (36) and second (38) phase regions. A first clocked well (14) is provided for receiving charge integrated in the first phase region (36). A second clocked well (16) is provided for receiving charge integrated in a second phase region (38) adjacent the first phase region (36). A first gate (20) is insulatively disposed over the first clocked well (14), and a second gate (22) is insulatively disposed over the second clocked well (16). A controller controls .phi..sub.1 and .phi..sub.2 pulses such that the charge is transferred from a selected one of the first and second clocked wells (14, 16) to the other, thus integrating all of the charge in the cell into one clocked well thereof. This unified charge is then transferred out from clocked well to clocked well.

摘要翻译： 在半导体衬底（10）的表面上形成CCD成像单元（36,38），并具有第一（36）和第二（38）相位区域。 第一时钟阱（14）被提供用于接收集成在第一相位区域（36）中的电荷。 第二时钟阱（16）被提供用于接收集成在与第一相位区域（36）相邻的第二相位区域（38）中的电荷。 第一栅极（20）被绝缘地设置在第一时钟阱（14）上方，并且第二栅极（22）绝对地设置在第二时钟阱（16）上。 控制器控制phi 1和phi 2脉冲，使得电荷从第一和第二计时阱（14,16）中的选定的一个传送到另一个，从而将电池中的所有电荷集成到其一个时钟阱中。 然后将这个统一的费用从钟表中转出来。

公开(公告)号：US4990765A

公开(公告)日：1991-02-05

申请号：US440779

申请日：1989-11-22

申请人： Miroslav Ondris ,  Allen A. Endres

发明人： Miroslav Ondris ,  Allen A. Endres

IPC分类号： H04N5/30

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575 ,  H04N3/1581

摘要： A method and means for the electronic processing of an analog signal generated in a series addressed diode array to produce a digital signal indicative of the illumination of the photodiodes in the array is disclosed. A voltage ramp is applied to the array and the resulting current steps converted to a voltage signal. The voltage signal is differentiated and the resulting pulses are digitized to provide the illumination state of the photodiodes in the array. Alternately, the voltage signal is integrated in a series of windows. The results of each previous integration is substrated from the most current integration, producing a series of pulses that are digitized to provide the illumination state of the array. The processing may be synchronized by either dividing the sweep interval into evenly spaced intervals, by differentiating the voltage signal and detecting the derivative exceeding a threshold, or differentiating the voltage signal twice and detecting zero-crossings in the resulting signal. The voltage ramp may be made to increase in slope with time to help ensure that the addressing diodes begin conducting at equal time intervals.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于电子处理串联寻址二极管阵列中产生的模拟信号以产生指示阵列中的光电二极管的照明的数字信号的方法和装置。 电压斜坡被施加到阵列，并且所得到的电流步长转换成电压信号。 电压信号被微分，所得到的脉冲被数字化以提供阵列中的光电二极管的照明状态。 或者，电压信号被集成在一系列窗口中。 每个先前积分的结果都是从最新的积分中减去的，产生一系列数字化的脉冲以提供阵列的照明状态。 可以通过将扫描间隔划分成均匀间隔的间隔，通过区分电压信号并检测超过阈值的导数，或者将电压信号微分两次并检测所得到的信号中的过零点来同步处理。 可以使电压斜坡随时间增加斜率，以帮助确保寻址二极管以相等的时间间隔开始导通。

公开(公告)号：US4833539A

公开(公告)日：1989-05-23

申请号：US133422

申请日：1987-12-15

申请人： Jean L. Berger

发明人： Jean L. Berger

IPC分类号： H01L27/148 ,  H04N5/374

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575

摘要： When the capacitance of the conductive columns of the line-transfer photosensitive device is higher than that of the photosensitive elements and of the read register, use is made of a reading circuit provided in the case of each conductive column with a plurality of charge storage capacitors separated by an MOS transistor. These MOS transistors operate in the saturating mode and pass signal charges derived from each conductive column from one capacitor to the next up to the read register. The storage capacitors have decreasing values as the distance from the read register becomes shorter. Transfer of the signal charges is accompanied by transfer of polarization charge quantities which decrease in value as the distance from the register becomes shorter. Once the transfer operations have been performed, these quantities of polarization charges are returned to their initial capacitors.

摘要翻译： 当行转印感光装置的导电柱的电容高于感光元件和读取寄存器的电容时，使用在每个导电柱的情况下提供的读取电路，其具有多个电荷存储电容器 由MOS晶体管分开。 这些MOS晶体管工作在饱和模式，并将从每个导电柱导出的信号电荷从一个电容器传递到下一个直到读取寄存器。 随着与读取寄存器的距离变短，存储电容器具有减小的值。 随着离寄存器的距离变短，信号电荷的传送伴随着偏移电荷量的转移，其数值会减小。 一旦执行了传送操作，这些极化电荷的量将返回到其初始电容器。

公开(公告)号：US4831454A

公开(公告)日：1989-05-16

申请号：US022605

申请日：1987-03-05

申请人： Nobuyoshi Tanaka ,  Toshiji Suzuki ,  Tsuneo Suzuki ,  Masaharu Ozaki ,  Shigetoshi Sugawa ,  Mahito Shinohara

发明人： Nobuyoshi Tanaka ,  Toshiji Suzuki ,  Tsuneo Suzuki ,  Masaharu Ozaki ,  Shigetoshi Sugawa ,  Mahito Shinohara

IPC分类号： H01L27/146 ,  H04N3/15

CPC分类号： H04N3/1512 ,  H01L27/14681 ,  H04N3/1575 ,  H04N3/1581

摘要： An image sensor device provided with a linear array of photoelectric converting elements each having a capacitor on a control electrode area of a semiconductor transistor is disclosed. The image sensor device is provided with means for sequentially selecting the photoelectric converting elements, and the potential of the control electrode area of the selected photoelectric converting element is controlled through said capacitor, thereby accumulating the carriers generated by photoexcitation in said control electrode area and reading a voltage generated according to the amount of carrier accumulation or dissipating thus accumulated carriers.

公开(公告)号：US4807037A

公开(公告)日：1989-02-21

申请号：US117614

申请日：1987-11-06

申请人： Mamoru Iesaka ,  Yoshiyuki Matsunaga ,  Sohei Manabe ,  Nozomu Harada

发明人： Mamoru Iesaka ,  Yoshiyuki Matsunaga ,  Sohei Manabe ,  Nozomu Harada

IPC分类号： H01L27/148 ,  H04N5/372 ,  H04N3/14

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575 ,  H01L27/14831

摘要： In a CCD image sensor, a plurality of horizontal CCD registers are disposed adjacent to an image sensing area having matrix-arrayed image sensing cells and a plurality of vertical CCD registers. In the CCD image sensor, the channel impurity concentration of second horizontal CCD register, located away from the image sensing area, is more higher than that of first horizontal CCD register. With this feature, when the charges are transferred to the second horizontal CCD register across the first horizontal register, the residual charges in the first horiozntal CCD register are remarkably reduced.

摘要翻译： 在CCD图像传感器中，多个水平CCD寄存器被布置为与具有矩阵阵列的图像感测单元和多个垂直CCD寄存器的图像感测区域相邻。 在CCD图像传感器中，位于远离图像感测区域的第二水平CCD寄存器的沟道杂质浓度比第一水平CCD寄存器的沟道杂质浓度更高。 利用该特征，当电荷在第一水平寄存器中被传送到第二水平CCD寄存器时，第一水平CCD寄存器中的剩余电荷显着减小。

公开(公告)号：US4763198A

公开(公告)日：1988-08-09

申请号：US033376

申请日：1987-04-02

申请人： Masatoshi Tabei

发明人： Masatoshi Tabei

IPC分类号： H01L27/148 ,  H04N5/3728 ,  H04N5/378 ,  H04N3/14

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575

摘要： An image sensor in which charge is transferred from an array of photosensing elements to a plurality of vertical CCDs arranged between columns of the photosensing element. The CCD channels are all gated near their ends by a first MOS electrode. Thereafter, separately controlled second MOS electrode inject the current in the channels into the substrate, from which it can be read. Preferably, the first MOS electrode has a tooth shape with the second MOS electrode in a staggered arrangement near the tooth side to reduce cross-channel interference. Also preferably, the substrate around the second electrodes is isolated.

摘要翻译： 一种图像传感器，其中电荷从光敏元件阵列传送到布置在感光元件的列之间的多个垂直CCD。 CCD通道都通过第一MOS电极在其端部附近门控。 此后，单独控制的第二MOS电极将通道中的电流注入到基板中，从而可以读取它们。 优选地，第一MOS电极具有齿形，其中第二MOS电极以齿侧布置在交错布置中，以减少交叉沟道干扰。 也优选隔离第二电极周围的衬底。

公开(公告)号：US4695889A

公开(公告)日：1987-09-22

申请号：US828743

申请日：1986-02-12

申请人： Jacques Portmann

发明人： Jacques Portmann

IPC分类号： G11C27/04 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N1/028 ,  H04N1/19 ,  H04N5/372 ,  H04N1/024

CPC分类号： H04N3/1575

摘要： Charge accumulation read-out device of photosensitive detectors comprising a charge transfer shift register which receives the information from N detectors disposed in the same line. This register has the same storage area over the whole of its length and conveys the information collected at different times from these detectors without mixing it, means provide simultaneously several read-outs of the charges stored by certain given stages of the register, which ensures in phase summation of the information. The invention concerns the application of TDI read-out to photosensitive detector matrices.

摘要翻译： 光电检测器的电荷累积读出装置，包括电荷转移移位寄存器，其从设置在同一行的N个检测器接收信息。 该寄存器在整个长度上具有相同的存储区域，并且传送与这些检测器不同时间收集的信息而不混合，这意味着同时提供寄存器的某些给定阶段存储的电荷的多次读出，这确保了 信息的相位求和。 本发明涉及TDI读出对光敏检测器矩阵的应用。