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公开(公告)号:US11632508B2
公开(公告)日:2023-04-18
申请号:US17895385
申请日:2022-08-25
发明人: Ingyu Baek , Seungsik Kim
IPC分类号: H04N5/359 , H04N9/04 , H04N5/378 , H01L27/146
摘要: An imaging device includes a pixel array with first and second pixels respectively having first and second conversion gains connected to row and column lines; a row driver determining a selection row line among the row lines; a readout circuit obtaining first and second pixel signals from first and second pixels connected to the selection row line; a column driver generating first and second image data from the first and second pixel signals; and an image signal processor using the first and second image data to generate an object image. The second pixels include an expansion capacitor connected between a floating diffusion node and a ground node. Exposure time of the first pixels is equal to or longer than exposure time of the second pixels. An area of a light receiving region of the first pixels is equal to an area of a light receiving region of the second pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US20230066988A1
公开(公告)日:2023-03-02
申请号:US17984491
申请日:2022-11-10
发明人: Ryoji SUZUKI
IPC分类号: H04N5/359 , H01L27/146 , H04N9/04
摘要: The present technique aims to provide a solid-state imaging device that reduces shading and color mixing between pixels. The present invention also provides a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device. The present technique further relates to a solid-state imaging device that enables provision of an electronic apparatus that uses the solid-state imaging device, a method of manufacturing the solid-state imaging device, and an electronic apparatus. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate, pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit formed in the substrate, and a color filter layer formed on the light incidence surface side of the substrate. The solid-state imaging device also includes a device isolating portion that is formed to divide the color filter layer and the substrate for the respective pixels, and has a lower refractive index than the refractive indexes of the color filter layer and the substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20230058486A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-23
申请号:US17981258
申请日:2022-11-04
发明人: Joseph Kostrzewa
摘要: Techniques for facilitating burn-in mitigation and associated imaging systems and methods are provided. In one example, a method applying a bias signal to a sensor array of an imaging device to increase a temperature of the sensor array to perform burn-in mitigation. The method further includes reducing the temperature of the sensor array. The method further includes determining whether a burn-in is present in the sensor array. Related systems and devices are also provided.
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公开(公告)号:US20220417456A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-29
申请号:US17895385
申请日:2022-08-25
发明人: INGYU BAEK , SEUNGSIK KIM
摘要: An imaging device includes a pixel array with first and second pixels respectively having first and second conversion gains connected to row and column lines; a row driver determining a selection row line among the row lines; a readout circuit obtaining first and second pixel signals from first and second pixels connected to the selection row line; a column driver generating first and second image data from the first and second pixel signals; and an image signal processor using the first and second image data to generate an object image. The second pixels include an expansion capacitor connected between a floating diffusion node and a ground node. Exposure time of the first pixels is equal to or longer than exposure time of the second pixels. An area of a light receiving region of the first pixels is equal to an area of a light receiving region of the second pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US20220408040A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-22
申请号:US17352776
申请日:2021-06-21
发明人: Jason INMAN , Kevin FRONCZAK
摘要: An imaging pixel (2) to mitigate cross-talk effects comprises a voltage supply node (VN) to receive a supply voltage (VDD), and an output node (ON) to provide a pixel output signal. The imaging pixel (2) further comprises a photosensitive element (10), and a source follower transistor (31) having a control node coupled to the photosensitive element (10). The source follower transistor (31) is interposed between the voltage supply node (VN) and the output node (ON). The imaging pixel (2) comprises a clamping circuit (20) being interposed between the voltage supply node (VN) and the output node (ON).
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公开(公告)号:US11523075B2
公开(公告)日:2022-12-06
申请号:US17504028
申请日:2021-10-18
发明人: Atsushi Suzuki , Takanori Yamashita
摘要: The imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric converter, an output line, a readout circuit unit connected to the output line, and a control unit. The readout circuit unit includes an amplifier circuit, a first switch for resetting the amplifier circuit, a sample-and-hold circuit, a second switch provided between the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit, and a gain switching circuit. The control unit performs a first period of resetting the amplifier circuit by first switch, and a second period of connecting the amplifier circuit and the sample-and-hold circuit by the second switch. The first and second periods at least partially overlap with each other, and a timing at which the second switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the second period is later than a timing at which the first switch transitions from an on state to an off state in the first period.
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公开(公告)号:US20220293659A1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-15
申请号:US17522615
申请日:2021-11-09
申请人: SK hynix Inc.
发明人: Sung Wook CHO
IPC分类号: H01L27/146 , H04N5/369 , H04N5/359 , H04N5/351
摘要: An image sensing device for preventing a crosstalk path is disclosed. The image sensing device includes a substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, each of which generates and accumulates photocharges corresponding to incident light and a plurality of lenses disposed over the substrate, and arranged to receive the incident light and to direct received incident light to the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, wherein the plurality of lenses includes a first lens and a second lens that are arranged to contact each other and have different refractive indexes from each other.
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公开(公告)号:US20220201229A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-23
申请号:US17247590
申请日:2020-12-17
发明人: Debashree GURUARIBAM
IPC分类号: H04N5/365 , H04N5/369 , H04N5/341 , H04N5/378 , H04N5/359 , H04N5/3745 , H04N5/353 , H04N5/355
摘要: An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array, row control circuitry, and column readout circuitry. The array may include first and second sets of active pixels that are configured in different manners or controlled by the row control circuitry and column readout circuitry in different manners. The array may include optically black pixels that have photosensitive elements shield from incident light. The optically black pixels may be configured to generate first and second sets of black level signals adapted to both the first and second sets of active pixels. The corresponding sets of black level signals may be used to better reduce noise in corresponding sets of image signals generated by the first and second sets of active pixels.
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公开(公告)号:US11297276B1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-05
申请号:US17039620
申请日:2020-09-30
申请人: FEI Company
摘要: A method and system for acquiring data from a pixelated image sensor for detecting charged particles. The method includes reading a pixel voltage of one or more of the multiple pixels multiple times without resetting the image sensor and digitizing the pixel into a first number of bits. The camera outputs a digitized compressed pixel voltage in a second, less, number of bits. The maximum range of the digitized compressed pixel voltage is less than a maximum range of the pixel voltage.
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公开(公告)号:US11277578B2
公开(公告)日:2022-03-15
申请号:US17088133
申请日:2020-11-03
申请人: SONY CORPORATION
发明人: Yoshiaki Masuda , Yuki Miyanami , Hideshi Abe , Tomoyuki Hirano , Masanari Yamaguchi , Yoshiki Ebiko , Kazufumi Watanabe , Tomoharu Ogita
IPC分类号: H04N5/225 , G02B1/118 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/369 , H01L31/0232 , H04N5/359 , H04N5/374 , H04N9/04 , H01L31/0203 , H01L31/10
摘要: The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a method for manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus capable of improving sensitivity while suppressing degradation of color mixture. The solid-state imaging device includes an anti-reflection portion having a moth-eye structure provided on a boundary surface on a light-receiving surface side of a photoelectric conversion region of each pixel arranged two-dimensionally, and an inter-pixel light-blocking portion provided below the boundary surface of the anti-reflection portion to block incident light. In addition, the photoelectric conversion region is a semiconductor region, and the inter-pixel light-blocking portion has a trench structure obtained by digging the semiconductor region in a depth direction at a pixel boundary. The techniques according to the present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a solid-state imaging device of a rear surface irradiation type.
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