Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor with shifted color filter array pattern and bit line pairs
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Application No.: US16855857Application Date: 2020-04-22
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Publication No.: US11284045B2Publication Date: 2022-03-22
- Inventor: Qingfei Chen , Rui Wang , Wei Wei Wang , Zhiyong Zhan , Xin Wang , Qingwei Shan , Kenny Geng
- Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Perkins Coie LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/374
- IPC: H04N5/374 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/369 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/3745 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
An imaging device includes groupings of photodiodes having four photodiodes. A transfer transistor is between each photodiode and a floating diffusion. Each floating diffusion is coupled to up to two photodiodes per grouping at a time through transfer transistors. A buffer transistor is coupled to each floating diffusion. The buffer transistors may be in a first or second grouping of buffer transistors. A first bit line is coupled to up to two buffer transistors of the first grouping and a second bit line is coupled to up to two buffer transistors of the second grouping of buffer transistors at a time. A color filter array including a plurality of groupings of color filters is disposed over respective photodiodes of the photodiode array, wherein each grouping of color filters includes four color filters having a same color, wherein each grouping of color filters overlaps two groupings of photodiodes.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210337169A1 IMAGE SENSOR WITH SHIFTED COLOR FILTER ARRAY PATTERN AND BIT LINE PAIRS Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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