301 patents
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Semiconductor devices, semiconductor wafers, and methods of manufacturing the same
14 Dec 21
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device.
Chia-Ying Liu, Wu-Zang Yang, Chia-Jung Liu, Chi-Chih Huang
Filed: 29 Jul 19
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Flip-chip sample imaging devices with self-aligning lid
7 Dec 21
A flip-chip sample imaging device with self-aligning lid includes an image sensor chip, a fan-out substrate, and a lid.
Ming Zhang, Yin Qian, Chia-Chun Miao, Dyson H. Tai
Filed: 1 Mar 19
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Subrange ADC for image sensor
7 Dec 21
A subrange analog-to-digital converter (ADC) converts analog image signal received from a bitline to a digital signal through an ADC comparator.
Chao-Fang Tsai, Zheng Yang
Filed: 2 Oct 19
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Dark current reduction for image sensor having electronic global shutter and image storage capacitors
7 Dec 21
An image sensor has an array of pixels, each pixel having an associated shutter transistor coupled to transfer a charge dependent on light exposure of the pixel onto an image storage capacitor, the image-storage capacitors being configured to be read into an analog to digital converter.
Keiji Mabuchi, Sohei Manabe, Lindsay Grant
Filed: 9 Jul 19
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LCOS display panel having UV cut filter
30 Nov 21
A LCOS display panel comprises a silicon substrate, a pixel structure on the silicon substrate, a first and a second PI (polyimide) layers, a LC (liquid crystal) layer between the first and the second PI layers, wherein the second PI layer is disposed on the pixel structure, and the LC layer is disposed on the second PI layer, a glass substrate, an ITO (indium tin oxide) layer, a dam sealing a perimeter of the LCOS display panel to enclose the LC layer within the dam, wherein the dam is disposed between the first and second PI layers, and holds the silicon substrate and the glass substrate together, and a UV (ultra violet) cut filter in an active area of the LCOS display panel, wherein the active area of the LCOS display panel includes the LC layer and the pixel structure.
Pei-Wen Ko, Chun-Sheng Fan
Filed: 8 Aug 18
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Isolation structure for suppressing floating diffusion junction leakage in CMOS image sensor
30 Nov 21
A pixel array is provided that addresses leaking current at or near the floating diffusion region of the pixel cells.
Seong Yeol Mun
Filed: 8 Jul 20
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Photon sensing with threshold detection using capacitor-based comparator
23 Nov 21
A threshold detection circuit includes a plurality of capacitors.
Trygve Willassen, Olivier Bulteel, Trung Nguyen, Robert Johansson
Filed: 9 Oct 18
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Impedance matching system for high speed digital receivers
23 Nov 21
A digital differential line receiver includes a differential signal to single-ended conversion amplifier coupled to receive a data line and data-complement line of a differential signal; a first termination resistor coupled to the data line of the differential signal; a second termination resistor coupled to the data-complement line of the differential signal; a first impedance-adjusting transistor coupled between the first termination resistor and a common mode line; a second impedance-adjusting transistor coupled between the second termination resistor and the common mode line; a control-voltage generator coupled to sense the common mode line and provide a control voltage, the control voltage generator configured to adjust the control voltage to a voltage level such that a combined impedance of the first termination resistor, the first impedance-adjusting transistor, the second termination resistor, and the second impedance-adjusting transistor matches a specified impedance.
Li Yang, Charles Qingle Wu, Nan Liu
Filed: 17 Dec 20
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Camera system with PWM-activated, burst-self-refresh, DRAM to reduce standby power consumption
23 Nov 21
A low-power image capture device includes a first image buffer in SRAM coupled to receive images from an image sensor, and a second image buffer receiving images transferred in bursts from the first image buffer, the second image buffer implemented in PASR DRAM, the image buffers together operating as a first-in, first-out, (FIFO) buffer.
Wei-Feng Huang, Yuguo Ye, Chin Tong Thia, Biao He
Filed: 13 Oct 20
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Medical micro-cable structure and connection method with mini camera cube chip
16 Nov 21
A novel endoscope includes a camera module, an electrical cable, and an electrical connector.
Teng-Sheng Chen, Wei-Feng Lin, Xiang-Dong Xiong
Filed: 20 Feb 20
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Image sensor chip-scale-package
2 Nov 21
An image sensor chip-scale package includes a pixel array, a cover glass covering the pixel array, a dam, and an adhesive layer.
Chun-Sheng Fan
Filed: 8 Oct 18
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Data readout with active reset feedback amplifier for stacked image sensor
2 Nov 21
An image sensor comprises a pixel array of pixel cells.
Geunsook Park, Chih-Wei Hsiung
Filed: 8 Oct 20
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Image sensor with micro-structured color filter
26 Oct 21
An image sensor includes a two-dimensional photodiode-array formed in a semiconductor substrate, a first waveguide, and a first color filter.
Alireza Bonakdar, Zhiqiang Lin
Filed: 19 Sep 19
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Small-pitch image sensor
19 Oct 21
Image sensor includes a first semiconductor material and a plurality of first doped regions disposed in the semiconductor material.
Yuanliang Liu, Vincent Venezia
Filed: 6 Nov 18
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Tunnel contact for a pixel cell in an imaging system
19 Oct 21
A pixel cell includes an electrically conductive tunnel contact formed across a surface of a source follower gate, the tunnel contact having a first end, a second end, and an intermediate portion between the first and second ends.
Qin Wang, Woon il Choi
Filed: 20 Dec 19
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High dynamic range high speed CMOS image sensor design
5 Oct 21
A readout circuit for use in an image sensor includes a first sample and hold (SH) circuit coupled to a bitline that is coupled to a pixel array.
Tiejun Dai, Zhe Gao, Ling Fu
Filed: 14 Dec 20
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Low-height projector assembly
28 Sep 21
A low-height projector assembly includes a biconvex lens, a converging lens, an aperture stop, and a beam-steerer between the biconvex lens and the converging lens.
Tingyu Cheng, Jau-Jan Deng
Filed: 9 Oct 18
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Circuit and method for control of counter start time
21 Sep 21
An analog to digital conversion (ADC) circuit includes a ramp circuit coupled to output a ramp signal, and the ramp signal is offset from a starting voltage by an offset voltage.
Rui Wang, Yu-Shen Yang, Shan Chen, Min Qu
Filed: 30 Oct 18
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Metal vertical transfer gate with high-k dielectric passivation lining
14 Sep 21
A method for manufacturing an image sensor includes, for each of a plurality of photosensitive pixels of the image sensor, forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate of the image sensor, and depositing temporary transfer gate material in and above the trench.
Chiao-Ti Huang, Shiyu Sun, Gang Chen
Filed: 25 Jun 19
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First photon correlated time-of-flight sensor
14 Sep 21
A time-of-flight (TOF) sensor includes a light source, a plurality of avalanche photodiodes, and a plurality of pulse generators.
Olivier Bulteel
Filed: 25 Oct 19