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公开(公告)号：US20200158837A1
公开(公告)日：2020-05-21
申请号：US16752653
申请日：2020-01-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Anup K. Sharma , Arnaud Laflaquière , Gennadiy A. Agranov , Gershon Rosenblum , Shingo Mandai
IPC: G01S7/4865 , G01S7/4863 , G01S17/10 , G04F10/00 , G01S7/483 , H01L31/02 , G01S17/89 , G01S17/18
Abstract: A sensing device includes a first array of sensing elements, which output a signal indicative of a time of incidence of a single photon on the sensing element. A second array of processing circuits are coupled respectively to the sensing elements and comprise a gating generator, which variably sets a start time of the gating interval for each sensing element within each acquisition period, and a memory, which records the time of incidence of the single photon on each sensing element in each acquisition period. A controller sets, in each of at least some of the acquisition periods, different, respective gating intervals for different ones of the sensing elements.
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公开(公告)号：US20170052065A1
公开(公告)日：2017-02-23
申请号：US14830760
申请日：2015-08-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Anup K. Sharma , Arnaud Laflaquière , Gennadiy A. Agranov , Gershon Rosenblum , Shingo Mandai
CPC classification number: G01S7/4865 , G01S7/483 , G01S7/4863 , G01S17/10 , G01S17/107 , G01S17/89 , G04F10/005 , H01L31/02027
Abstract: A sensing device includes a first array of sensing elements, which output a signal indicative of a time of incidence of a single photon on the sensing element. A second array of processing circuits are coupled respectively to the sensing elements and comprise a gating generator, which variably sets a start time of the gating interval for each sensing element within each acquisition period, and a memory, which records the time of incidence of the single photon on each sensing element in each acquisition period. A controller controls the gating generator during a first sequence of the acquisition periods so as to sweep the gating interval over the acquisition periods and to identify a respective detection window for the sensing element, and during a second sequence of the acquisition periods, to fix the gating interval for each sensing element to coincide with the respective detection window.
Abstract translation: 感测装置包括感测元件的第一阵列，其输出指示感测元件上的单个光子的入射时间的信号。 处理电路的第二阵列分别耦合到感测元件，并且包括选通发生器，其在每个采集周期内可变地设置每个感测元件的选通间隔的开始时间，以及记录存储器的入射时间 在每个采集周期中每个感测元件上的单个光子。 控制器在采集周期的第一序列期间控制门控发生器，以便在采集周期上扫描门控间隔，并且识别感测元件的相应检测窗口，并且在采集周期的第二序列期间， 每个感测元件的选通间隔与相应的检测窗口一致。
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公开(公告)号：US12185018B2
公开(公告)日：2024-12-31
申请号：US16912497
申请日：2020-06-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gennadiy A. Agranov , Zachary M. Beiley , Andras G. Pattantyus-Abraham , Oray O. Cellek , Xiaofeng Fan , Gershon Rosenblum , Xiangli Li , Emanuele Mandelli , Bernhard Buettgen , Yuchuan Shao
IPC: H04N5/33 , H01L27/146 , H04N23/30 , H04N25/131
Abstract: A sensor stack is described. The sensor stack includes first and second electromagnetic radiation sensors. The first electromagnetic radiation sensor has a high quantum efficiency for converting a first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into a first set of electrical signals. The second electromagnetic radiation sensor is positioned in a field of view of the first electromagnetic radiation sensor and has a high quantum efficiency for converting a second range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into a second set of electrical signals and a low quantum efficiency for converting the first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths into the second set of electrical signals. The first range of wavelengths does not overlap the second range of wavelengths, and the second electromagnetic radiation sensor is at least partially transmissive to the first range of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths.
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公开(公告)号：US20240089569A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-14
申请号：US18302822
申请日：2023-04-19
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Roei Remez , Brian McCall , Milan Maksimovic , Maoz Ovadia , Arnaud Laflaquière , Gershon Rosenblum , Noah D. Bedard , Omer Korech , Emanuel Mordechai , Keith Lyon , Refael Della Pergola , Niv Gilboa
CPC classification number: H04N23/13 , G02B1/002 , G02B1/041 , G02B26/0808 , G02B27/0012 , G02B27/40
Abstract: An image sensing device includes a detector assembly, which includes a matrix of optical sensing elements having a predefined pitch. Each optical sensing element includes an active area having a width that is less than 90% of the pitch. An array of optical apertures are respectively aligned with the optical sensing elements such that each optical aperture is positioned at a distance from a respective optical sensing element that is no less than twice the width of the active area. Objective optics are configured to focus light from a scene onto the detector assembly.
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公开(公告)号：US20220375986A1
公开(公告)日：2022-11-24
申请号：US17738364
申请日：2022-05-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gershon Rosenblum , Erin F. Hanelt , Xiangli Li
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: An image sensor pixel includes a photodiode, a lens positioned in a light-receiving path of the photodiode, and an anti-reflective coating disposed between the photodiode and the lens and including four layers. The four layers include alternating layers of a higher refractive index material and a lower refractive index material. The higher refractive index material has a refractive index that is higher than the lower refractive index material.
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公开(公告)号：US11415679B2
公开(公告)日：2022-08-16
申请号：US16752653
申请日：2020-01-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Anup K. Sharma , Arnaud Laflaquière , Gennadiy A. Agranov , Gershon Rosenblum , Shingo Mandai
IPC: G01S7/4865 , H01L31/02 , G01S7/483 , G04F10/00 , G01S17/10 , G01S7/4863 , G01S17/18 , G01S17/894
Abstract: A sensing device includes a first array of sensing elements, which output a signal indicative of a time of incidence of a single photon on the sensing element. A second array of processing circuits are coupled respectively to the sensing elements and comprise a gating generator, which variably sets a start time of the gating interval for each sensing element within each acquisition period, and a memory, which records the time of incidence of the single photon on each sensing element in each acquisition period. A controller sets, in each of at least some of the acquisition periods, different, respective gating intervals for different ones of the sensing elements.
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公开(公告)号：US20240079440A1
公开(公告)日：2024-03-07
申请号：US17903067
申请日：2022-09-06
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Oray O. Cellek , Fei Tan , Gershon Rosenblum , Hong Wei Lee , Cheng-Ying Tsai , Jae Y. Park , Christophe Verove , John L Orlowski , Siddharth Joshi , Xiangli Li , David Coulon , Xiaofeng Fan , Keith Lyon , Nicolas Hotellier , Arnaud Laflaquière
IPC: H01L27/146 , H04N5/378
CPC classification number: H01L27/14652 , H01L27/14621 , H01L27/14636 , H01L27/1465 , H04N5/378
Abstract: A multispectral sensing device includes a first die, including silicon, which is patterned to define a first array of sensor elements, which output first electrical signals in response to optical radiation that is incident on the device in a band of wavelengths less than 1000 nm that is incident on the front side of the first die. A second die has its first side bonded to the back side of the first die and includes a photosensitive material and is patterned to define a second array of sensor elements, which output second electrical signals in response to the optical radiation that is incident on the device in a second band of wavelengths greater than 1000 nm that passes through the first die and is incident on the first side of the second die. Readout circuitry reads the first electrical signals and the second electrical signals serially out of the device.
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公开(公告)号：US20200029035A1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-23
申请号：US16460883
申请日：2019-07-02
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Gennadiy A. Agranov , Gershon Rosenblum , Xiangli Li
Abstract: A method for processing an image includes obtaining a set of pixel values captured from a pixel array during an image capture frame. The set of pixel values includes pixel values for a set of asymmetric pixels having different directional asymmetries. The method further includes detecting, using the pixel values for at least the asymmetric pixels and the different directional asymmetries of the asymmetric pixels, a directionality of image flare; and processing an image defined by the set of pixel values in accordance with the detected directionality of image flare. In some embodiments, image flare may be distinguished from noise using the set of pixel values.
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9.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10360431B2
公开(公告)日：2019-07-23
申请号：US15554746
申请日：2016-03-24
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Giovanni Gozzini , Gennadiy A. Agranov , Brian M. King , Gershon Rosenblum , Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
IPC: G06K9/00 , H04W12/06 , G01N21/894 , G01N21/956
Abstract: An electronic device may include an optical image sensor and a pin hole array mask layer above the optical image sensor. The electronic device may also include a display layer above the pin hole array mask layer that includes spaced apart display pixels, and a transparent cover layer above the display layer defining a finger placement surface capable of receiving a finger adjacent thereto.
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公开(公告)号：US10205937B2
公开(公告)日：2019-02-12
申请号：US15498507
申请日：2017-04-27
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Douglas J. Fettig , Gennadiy A. Agranov , Gershon Rosenblum
IPC: H04N5/357 , H04N5/369 , H04N17/00 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/217
Abstract: An imaging method includes imaging a scene using an imaging system, which includes an array of radiation sensing elements, including first sensing elements with symmetrical angular responses and second sensing elements with asymmetrical angular responses, interspersed among the first sensing elements, and optics configured to focus radiation from the scene onto the array. The method further includes processing first signals output by the first sensing elements in order to identify one or more areas of uniform irradiance on the array, and processing second signals output by the second sensing elements that are located in the identified areas, in order to detect a misalignment of the optics with the array.
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