公开(公告)号：US5293237A

公开(公告)日：1994-03-08

申请号：US880904

申请日：1992-05-08

申请人： Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： H01L27/148 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H04N5/359 ,  H04N5/361 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/3722

CPC分类号： H01L27/14831

摘要： A CCD image sensing device has vertical shift registers (22), a horizontal shift register (3A), a horizontal transfer gate (4), a horizontal shift register (3B), a smear gate (6), a smear drain region (7) and a channel stop region (8) arranged in that order on an n-type substrate (N-Sub). A p-well region underlying the vertical shift registers (22), the horizontal shift register (3A), the horizontal transfer gate (4), the horizontal shift register (3B) the smear gate (6), the smear drain region (7) and the channel stop region (8) is doped in a high impurity concentration to stabilize the potential of the p-well region at a potential substantially equal to that of the channel stop region (8), i.e., ground potential (GND). Consequently, no hole storage region is formed in the p-well and hence the deterioration of the signal transfer performance can be prevented. Since no hole-depletion region is created, no dark current due to avalanche is produced.

摘要翻译： CCD图像感测装置具有垂直移位寄存器（22），水平移位寄存器（3A），水平传输门（4），水平移位寄存器（3B），污迹门（6），污迹漏区（7） ）和在n型衬底（N-Sub）上依次排列的通道停止区域（8）。 垂直移位寄存器（22），水平移位寄存器（3A），水平传输门（4），水平移位寄存器（3B），污迹门（6），污迹漏区（7） ），并且沟道停止区域（8）以高杂质浓度掺杂以将p阱区域的电位稳定在与沟道停止区域（8）的电位基本相等的电位，即接地电位（GND）。 因此，在p阱中不形成空穴存储区域，因此可以防止信号传递性能的劣化。 由于不产生空穴耗尽区域，所以不产生由于雪崩导致的暗电流。

公开(公告)号：US5237191A

公开(公告)日：1993-08-17

申请号：US787643

申请日：1991-11-04

申请人： Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Kazunori Tsukigi

发明人： Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Kazunori Tsukigi

IPC分类号： H01L21/339 ,  H01L27/148 ,  H01L29/762 ,  H04N1/028 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H04N5/3728

CPC分类号： H01L27/14831

摘要： A solid-state charge-coupled-device imager has an imaging region composed of a matrix of vertically and horizontally arrayed photosensitive areas for storing signal charges depending on the intensity of applied light, and a plurality of vertical shift resisters for vertically transferring the signal charges shifted from the photosensitive areas. The signal charges from the vertical shift registers are shifted to a horizontal shift register that transfers the signal charges in a horizontal direction. The horizontal shift register comprises a plurality of charge transfer electrodes horizontally spaced at predetermined intervals. The charge transfer electrodes are inclined to the horizontal direction. The charge transfer electrodes may be inclined linearly in their entirety to the horizontal direction or may be of a chevron shape.

摘要翻译： 固态电荷耦合器件成像器具有由垂直和水平阵列的感光区域的阵列组成的成像区域，用于根据所施加的光的强度存储信号电荷;以及多个垂直移位寄存器，用于垂直传送信号电荷 从感光区转移。 来自垂直移位寄存器的信号电荷被移动到在水平方向上传送信号电荷的水平移位寄存器。 水平移位寄存器包括以预定间隔水平隔开的多个电荷转移电极。 电荷转移电极相对于水平方向倾斜。 电荷转移电极可以在整个水平方向上线性地倾斜，或者可以是人字形。

公开(公告)号：US4780765A

公开(公告)日：1988-10-25

申请号：US025634

申请日：1987-03-13

申请人： Masaharu Hamasaki ,  Kikue Ishikawa ,  Yoshiaki Kagawa ,  Tomoyuki Suzuki ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Masaharu Hamasaki ,  Kikue Ishikawa ,  Yoshiaki Kagawa ,  Tomoyuki Suzuki ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： H01L27/148 ,  H01L21/76 ,  H01L27/14 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/359 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/372 ,  H04N3/14

CPC分类号： H04N5/3595 ,  H01L27/14887

摘要： A solid state image pick-up device includes means for cancelling a difference in impedance between photo-sensing areas in a photo-sensitive array. The impedance difference cancelling means cancels or makes the difference of impedance at each photo-sensing area ignorable to unify the charge handling in respective photo-sensing areas. In practice, the impedance difference cancelling means provides a resistance high enough to make the impedance difference between respective photo-sensing areas ignorable.

摘要翻译： 固态图像拾取装置包括用于消除光敏阵列中的感光区域之间的阻抗差异的装置。 阻抗差消除装置抵消或使每个感光区域处的阻抗差可忽略以统一各个感光区域中的电荷处理。 实际上，阻抗差消除装置提供足够高的电阻，使各个感光区域之间的阻抗差可忽略。

公开(公告)号：US20100271528A1

公开(公告)日：2010-10-28

申请号：US12808264

申请日：2008-12-17

申请人： Junji Tokumoto ,  Toshifumi Habara ,  Takeshi Fujita ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Junji Tokumoto ,  Toshifumi Habara ,  Takeshi Fujita ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： H04N5/225

CPC分类号： H01L27/14818 ,  H01L27/14831 ,  H01L27/14868 ,  H04N5/357 ,  H04N5/37213 ,  H04N5/3728

摘要： The present invention has an object of providing a method of driving a solid-state imaging device which can reduce reading voltage even when transfer electrodes adjacent to reading electrodes are smaller than the reading electrodes as a result of miniaturization of pixels. The solid-state imaging device includes photodiodes and vertical CCDs each including transfer electrodes. The method includes: reading signal charges from the photodiodes by setting the electric potential of a predetermined transfer electrode among the reading electrodes to the electric potential VH; transferring the read signal charges in a column direction by applying driving pulses having electric potentials VM and VL to the transfer electrodes. Each of the reading electrodes has a larger area than the adjacent transfer electrodes. In reading the signal charges, while the electric potential VH is being applied, the electric potential of one of the transfer electrodes adjacent to the predetermined reading electrode is set to the electric potential VM, and the electric potentials of the other one of the transfer electrodes adjacent to the predetermined reading electrode and a reading electrode other than the predetermined electrode are changed.

摘要翻译： 本发明的目的是提供一种驱动固态成像装置的方法，该固态成像装置即使当由于像素的小型化而使与读取电极相邻的传输电极小于读取电极时也可以降低读取电压。 固态成像装置包括各自包括转移电极的光电二极管和垂直CCD。 该方法包括：通过将读取电极中的预定转印电极的电位设置为电位VH来读取来自光电二极管的信号电荷; 通过向转移电极施加具有电位VM和VL的驱动脉冲，沿列方向传送读信号电荷。 每个读取电极具有比相邻的转移电极更大的面积。 在读取信号电荷时，在施加电位VH的同时，将与预定的读取电极相邻的一个转印电极的电位设定为电位VM，另一方的转印电极的电位 与预定的读取电极相邻并且除了预定电极之外的读取电极被改变。

公开(公告)号：US20100188537A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-29

申请号：US12671083

申请日：2009-06-10

申请人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Seiji Nishiwaki ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Shinichi Wakabayashi

发明人： Masao Hiramoto ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Seiji Nishiwaki ,  Masaaki Suzuki ,  Yoshiaki Sugitani ,  Shinichi Wakabayashi

IPC分类号： H04N5/335

CPC分类号： H04N5/2254 ,  H01L27/14621 ,  H01L27/14627 ,  H01L27/14629 ,  H04N5/33 ,  H04N9/045

摘要： Light-splitting elements are arranged in at least two columns and two rows to form two pairs 1a, 1b and 1c, 1d. Each element splits incident light into light rays and makes them fall on a portion of a photosensing section right under itself and an adjacent photosensitive cell. The element 1a splits the incident light so that a primary color ray C1 and its complementary color ray C1′ enter an adjacent cell 2b and an underlying cell 2a, respectively. The element 1b makes a primary color ray C2 and its complementary color ray C2′ enter an underlying cell 2a and an adjacent cell 2a, respectively. The element 1c does the same as the element 1b. And the element 1d makes a primary color ray C3 and its complementary color ray C3′ enter an adjacent cell 2c and an underlying cell 2d, respectively. These photosensitive cells 2 perform photoelectric conversion, thereby outputting an electrical signal representing the intensity of the incident light. By carrying out simple calculations between the outputs of these cells, a color signal and a luminance signal are generated.

摘要翻译： 光分离元件以至少两列和两列排列以形成两对1a，1b和1c，1d。 每个元件将入射光分成光线并使它们落在其本身正下方的光敏部分的一部分和相邻的感光单元上。 元件1a分割入射光，使得原色光线C1及其互补色光线C1'分别进入相邻的单元2b和下面的单元2a。 元件1b使原色光线C2和它的互补色射线C2'分别进入下面的单元2a和相邻单元2a。 元件1c与元件1b相同。 并且元件1d使原色光线C3和其互补色光线C3'分别进入相邻单元格2c和下面的单元格2d。 这些感光单元2进行光电转换，从而输出表示入射光强度的电信号。 通过在这些单元的输出之间进行简单的计算，生成彩色信号和亮度信号。

公开(公告)号：US07683956B2

公开(公告)日：2010-03-23

申请号：US11739254

申请日：2007-04-24

申请人： Tomohiro Honda ,  Yoshiaki Kato ,  Akiyoshi Kohno ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Toshihumi Habara ,  Kunihide Hirai

发明人： Tomohiro Honda ,  Yoshiaki Kato ,  Akiyoshi Kohno ,  Kazuya Yonemoto ,  Toshihumi Habara ,  Kunihide Hirai

IPC分类号： H04N5/335 ,  H04N9/64

CPC分类号： H04N5/335

摘要： Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of vertical transfer units (VCCDs), a horizontal transfer unit (HCCD) and a driving unit. In a vertical final stage of the VCCDs, there are same transfer electrode structures in every m columns, where m is equal to or more than 2, the vertical final stage being a vertical transfer stage located the closest to the HCCD, in each vertical final stage of columns except one column among the m columns or of all columns among the m columns, there are transfer electrodes independent from electrodes in the other columns in the m columns, and the independent transfer electrodes are driven independently to perform transfer processing from the corresponding vertical final stage to the HCCD, the driving being independent from driving for the electrodes in the other columns in the m columns, and the driving unit performs sequential vertical transfer driving, by which first packets and second packets are sequentially and vertically transferred within one horizontal transfer period, the first packet including a signal component to be used as an image signal and the second packet not including any signal component to be used as an image signal, and to apply, in the sequential vertical transfer driving, respective transfer pulses to the transfer electrodes in the vertical transfer stage and transfer electrodes of the HCCD, so that the first packets and the second packets are separated to be allocated into respective different horizontal transfer stages of the HCCD.

摘要翻译： 提供了包括多个垂直传送单元（VCCD），水平传送单元（HCCD）和驱动单元的固态成像设备。 在VCCD的垂直最后阶段，在每m列中存在相同的转移电极结构，其中m等于或大于2，垂直末级是位于最接近HCCD的垂直转移级，在每个垂直最终 在m列之间的柱之间的列的列之间或m列中的所有列之间的列之外，存在与m列中的其他列中的电极无关的转移电极，并且独立驱动电极被独立地驱动以从相应的 垂直末级到HCCD，驱动与m列的其他列中的电极独立驱动，并且驱动单元执行顺序垂直传送驱动，通过该顺序垂直传送驱动，第一分组和第二分组在一个水平中顺序和垂直传送 传输周期，第一分组包括要用作图像信号的信号分量，并且第二分组不包括 将要用作图像信号的任何信号分量，并且在顺序垂直传输驱动中将相应的传送脉冲施加到垂直传送级中的传输电极和HCCD的传输电极，使得第一分组和第二分组 数据包被分离以分配给HCCD的相应不同的水平传送级。

公开(公告)号：US07091978B2

公开(公告)日：2006-08-15

申请号：US10009857

申请日：2001-04-09

申请人： Shinichi Yoshimura ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Shinichi Yoshimura ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： G06F15/00 ,  G06T1/60

CPC分类号： G01B11/25 ,  G06T1/00 ,  H04N5/374

摘要： A pixel operable within a photographing device includes a light receiving portion for generating an electric signal corresponding to an intensity of received light, an amplifying portion for amplifying an output signal of the light receiving portion, a number of storing portions for storing, as a current signal, an electric signal amplified by the amplifying portion, a load portion for converting current outputs of the number of storing portions into voltages, a bias portion for supplying an offset current to an input of the load portion, and a calculating portion for calculating an output of the load portion, wherein a number of the pixels are arranged in a matrix. The storing portions and the photographing device are disposed on the same circuit, thereby expediting pixel processing. Additionally, with a bias, the output becomes stable.

摘要翻译： 在拍摄装置内可操作的像素包括：光接收部分，用于产生对应于接收光强度的电信号;放大部分，用于放大光接收部分的输出信号;多个存储部分，用于存储电流 信号，由放大部分放大的电信号，用于将存储部分的数量的电流输出转换为电压的负载部分，用于向负载部分的输入端提供偏置电流的偏置部分，以及用于计算 输出负载部分，其中多个像素被布置成矩阵。 存储部分和拍摄装置设置在相同的电路上，从而加速像素处理。 另外，通过偏置，输出变得稳定。

公开(公告)号：US20060017714A1

公开(公告)日：2006-01-26

申请号：US11100510

申请日：2005-04-07

申请人： Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： G09G5/00

CPC分类号： H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/3575 ,  H04N5/3658

摘要： A solid-state imaging apparatus which prevents fixed pattern noise from occurring is provided, the fixed pattern noise having a correlation in a column direction (or a row direction) caused by non-uniformity of a sampling circuit itself. The solid state imaging apparatus comprises a sampling circuit in which a signal from a photodiode PD is sampled. And, the sampling circuit includes: a sampling capacitor CSH for holding the signal from the photodiode PD; a sampling MOS switch M12 which (i) transmits the signal from the photodiode PD to the sampling capacitor CSH, or (ii) blocks the transmission; and a damping capacitor CDS connected to (i) one of a source electrode and a drain electrode of the sampling MOS switch M12 which is located closer to the sampling capacitor CSH and (ii) a gate electrode of the sampling MOS switch M12.

摘要翻译： 提供了防止发生固定图案噪声的固态成像装置，固定图案噪声在采样电路本身的不均匀性引起的列方向（或行方向）上具有相关性。 固态成像装置包括采样电路，其中来自光电二极管PD的信号被采样。 并且，采样电路包括：用于保持来自光电二极管PD的信号的采样电容器C （i）将信号从光电二极管PD发送到采样电容器C S的采样MOS开关M 12，或者（ii）阻止发送; 和连接到（i）采样MOS开关M 12的源极电极和漏电极之一的阻尼电容器C DS DS，其位于更靠近采样电容器C 和（ii）采样MOS开关M 12的栅电极。

公开(公告)号：US20050104991A1

公开(公告)日：2005-05-19

申请号：US11001029

申请日：2004-12-02

申请人： Kazuhiro Hoshino ,  Hirofumi Sumi ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Kazuhiro Hoshino ,  Hirofumi Sumi ,  Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： H04N5/225

CPC分类号： H04N5/2254 ,  H04N5/2253 ,  H04N5/2257

摘要： The method for manufacturing a camera module of the present invention includes forming a bump on each electrode portion of an imaging element. Next, a through hole is formed in a substrate. The imaging element is then mounted on a first side of the substrate having at least one bump such that a light receiving portion of the imaging element receives light via the through-hole of the substrate. A periphery of the imaging element is sealed to the substrate. Next, a lens unit is mounted on a second side of the substrate.

摘要翻译： 本发明的摄像机模块的制造方法包括在摄像元件的每个电极部分上形成凸块。 接下来，在基板上形成通孔。 然后将成像元件安装在具有至少一个凸起的基板的第一侧上，使得成像元件的光接收部分经由基板的通孔接收光。 成像元件的周边被密封到基底。 接下来，将透镜单元安装在基板的第二侧上。

公开(公告)号：US6037979A

公开(公告)日：2000-03-14

申请号：US745741

申请日：1996-11-12

申请人： Kazuya Yonemoto

发明人： Kazuya Yonemoto

IPC分类号： H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/335 ,  H04N5/341 ,  H04N5/363 ,  H04N5/365 ,  H04N5/369 ,  H04N5/374 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/378 ,  H04N5/74

CPC分类号： H04N5/378 ,  H04N3/1512 ,  H04N5/363 ,  H04N5/3658 ,  H04N5/3745

摘要： An amplifier type solid-state imaging device is operated in a capacitor load operation system. This solid-state imaging device is made high in reliability and an arrangement of the horizontal output circuit portion is simplified. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel MOS transistors each of which is connected between a voltage source (V.sub.DD) and a vertical signal line, a control electrode thereof being connected to a scanning line and charges generated by photoelectric conversion being accumulated near the channel thereof, a load capacitor element connected between the vertical signal line and a first potential, and a reset MOS switch for resetting the load capacitor element to a reset potential. A potential of the vertical signal line is also reset. When a signal is read out, the potential of the load capacitor element is set to substantially the same potential as the channel potential of the pixel MOS transistor. The capacitance of the load capacitor element is set to be larger than the capacitance of the vertical signal line. The reset potential is set to be shallower than the channel potential obtained in the pixel MOS transistor when no light is incident on the pixel MOS transistor, and a potential difference between it and a channel potential obtained when no light is incident on the pixel MOS transistor is set so as to fall within 2.0 V.

摘要翻译： 放大器型固态成像装置在电容器负载操作系统中操作。 该固态成像装置的可靠性高，水平输出电路部分的布置简化。 固态成像装置包括多个像素MOS晶体管，每个像素MOS晶体管连接在电压源（VDD）和垂直信号线之间，其控制电极连接到扫描线，并且通过光电转换产生的电荷积聚在 其通道，连接在垂直信号线和第一电位之间的负载电容器元件和用于将负载电容器元件复位到复位电位的复位MOS开关。 垂直信号线的电位也被复位。 当读出信号时，负载电容元件的电位被设定为与像素MOS晶体管的沟道电位基本相同的电位。 负载电容器元件的电容被设定为大于垂直信号线的电容。 当没有光入射到像素MOS晶体管上时，复位电位被设置为比在像素MOS晶体管中获得的沟道电位更浅，并且当没有光入射到像素MOS晶体管时获得的电位差与通道电位之间的电位差 设定为2.0V以内。