Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging pixels with storage capacitors
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Application No.: US15914122Application Date: 2018-03-07
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Publication No.: US10455162B2Publication Date: 2019-10-22
- Inventor: Gurvinder Singh , Anirudh Oberoi , Bharat Balar , Sundaraiah Gurindagunta
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Joseph F. Guihan
- Priority: IN201811002698 20180123
- Main IPC: H04N5/335
- IPC: H04N5/335 ; H04N5/243 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/367 ; H04N5/361 ; H04N5/363 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/359

Abstract:
An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels and row control circuitry. Each imaging pixel may include a photodiode, a floating diffusion region, a transfer transistor configured to transfer charge from the photodiode to the floating diffusion region, a dual conversion gain transistor coupled to the floating diffusion region, and a storage capacitor coupled to the dual conversion gain transistor. The capacitor may have a plate that receives a modulated control signal and the row control circuitry may be configured to modulate the control signal. To reduce image artifacts, the modulated control signal may be modulated low during the integration time of the pixel and may be modulated high during the high conversion gain readout time of the pixel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190230294A1 IMAGING PIXELS WITH STORAGE CAPACITORS Public/Granted day:2019-07-25
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