292 patents
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Metal Routing In Image Sensor Using Hybrid Bonding
16 Dec 21
A method of routing electrical connections in a wafer-on-wafer structure comprises, bonding a metal bonding pad of a first wafer to a metal bonding pad of a second wafer; bonding first wafer to the second wafer with a material different from the metal bonding pads; forming metal interconnect structures connecting the metal bonding pad of the first wafer to a first device disposed within a first and second side of the first wafer; and forming metal interconnect structures connecting the metal bonding pad of the second wafer to a second and third devices disposed within the second wafer, to connect the first device to the second and third devices through the metal bonding pads, wherein the electrical connections of the devices between the first and second wafers do not have a through-via that passes completely through the first or the second wafer.
Gang G. Chen, Shiyu Sun
Filed: 12 Jun 20
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Image Sensor with Multi-pixel Detector and Partial Isolation Structure
16 Dec 21
A multi-pixel detector of an image sensor is described.
Chun-Yung Ai, Kazufumi Watanabe, Chih-Wei Hsiung, Vincent Venezia
Filed: 15 Jun 20
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16 Dec 21
A pixel cell readout circuit includes a bitline input stage coupled to a bitline to receive an image signal from a pixel cell.
Hiroaki Ebihara, Rui Wang, John Brummer, Shan Chen
Filed: 12 Jun 20
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2 Dec 21
A pixel cell includes a first subpixel and a plurality of second subpixels.
Tiejun Dai, Keiji Mabuchi, Zhe Gao
Filed: 28 May 20
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25 Nov 21
A data transmission circuit of an image sensor.
Chun-Hsiang Chang, Zejian Wang, Chao-Fang Tsai, Jingwei Lai
Filed: 22 May 20
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18 Nov 21
A pixel array includes pixel cells, each including photodiodes.
Tiejun Dai, Hiroaki Ebihara, Sang Joo Lee, Rui Wang, Hiroki Ui
Filed: 8 Oct 20
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18 Nov 21
An active-pixel device assembly with stray-light reduction includes an active-pixel device including a semiconductor substrate and an array of active pixels, a light-transmissive substrate disposed on a light-receiving side of the active-pixel device, and a rough opaque coating disposed on a first surface of the light-transmissive substrate and forming an aperture aligned with the array of active pixels, wherein the rough opaque coating is rough so as to suppress reflection of light incident thereon from at least one side.
Chun-Sheng FAN, Wei-Feng LIN
Filed: 15 May 20
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18 Nov 21
A pixel array includes pixel cells disposed in semiconductor material.
Sang Joo Lee, Rui Wang, Hiroaki Ebihara, Tiejun Dai, Hiroki Ui
Filed: 8 Oct 20
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18 Nov 21
A pixel cell includes a plurality of subpixels to generate image charge in response to incident light.
Duli Mao, Bill Phan, Keiji Mabuchi, Seong Yeol Mun, Yuanliang Liu, Vincent Venezia
Filed: 18 May 20
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11 Nov 21
A ramp generator providing ramp signal with high resolution fine gain includes a current mirror having a first and second paths to conduct a capacitor current and an integrator current responsive to the capacitor current.
Lihang Fan, Liang Zuo, Nijun Jiang, Min Qu, Xuelian Liu
Filed: 5 May 20
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11 Nov 21
In some embodiments, an imaging system is provided.
Badrinath Padmanabhan, Boyd Fowler, Alireza Bonakdar, Richard Mann
Filed: 8 May 20
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4 Nov 21
Low noise silicon-germanium (SiGe) image sensor.
Mamoru Iesaka, Woon Il Choi, Sohei Manabe
Filed: 30 Apr 20
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4 Nov 21
An image sensor includes a source follower coupled to a photodiode to generate an image signal responsive to photogenerated charge.
Zhe Gao, Tiejun Dai
Filed: 29 Apr 20
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4 Nov 21
A liquid crystal on silicon device is described.
Alireza Bonakdar, Libo Weng, Badrinath Padmanabhan
Filed: 1 May 20
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4 Nov 21
A lens-array imager includes lenses Lm forming a lens array having a pitch dx, a pixel array including pixel-array regions Rm, and apertured baffle-layers therebetween; m={0, 1, 2, . . . }.
Regis Fan
Filed: 30 Apr 20
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28 Oct 21
An imaging device includes a photodiode array.
Rui Wang, Eiichi Funatsu, Woon Il Choi, Keiji Mabuchi, Chin Poh Pang, Qingfei Chen, Da Meng, Vivian Wang
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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28 Oct 21
An imaging device includes a first pixel circuit having a first plurality of photodiodes that includes a phase detection autofocus photodiode with image sensing photodiodes.
Qingfei Chen, Chin Poh Pang, Qingwei Shan
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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28 Oct 21
An imaging device includes groupings of photodiodes having four photodiodes.
Qingfei Chen, Rui Wang, Wei Wei Wang, Zhiyong Zhan, Xin Wang, Qingwei Shan, Kenny Geng
Filed: 22 Apr 20
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21 Oct 21
A readout circuit for use in an image sensor includes a plurality of comparators.
Lihang Fan, Min Qu, Yu-Shen Yang, Charles Qingle Wu
Filed: 21 Apr 20
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21 Oct 21
An image sensor with embedded wells for accommodating light emitters includes a semiconductor substrate including an array of doped sensing regions respectively corresponding to an array of photosensitive pixels of the image sensor.
Chia-Ying LIU, Wu-Zang YANG, Chia-Jung LIU, Ming ZHANG, Yin QIAN, Alireza BONAKDAR
Filed: 20 Apr 20