Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor
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Application No.: US17139288Application Date: 2020-12-31
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Publication No.: US11606520B2Publication Date: 2023-03-14
- Inventor: Eun Sub Shim , Kyungho Lee
- Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2016-0183465 20161230
- Main IPC: H04N5/355
- IPC: H04N5/355 ; H04N5/345 ; H04N5/243 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/357

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels arranged along a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. Each of the unit pixels includes a photoelectric conversion element generating and accumulating photocharges, a charge detection node receiving the photocharges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element, a readout circuit converting the photocharges accumulated in and output from the charge detection node into an electrical pixel signal, the readout circuit outputting the electrical pixel signal, a capacitive element, and a switching element controlling connection between the charge detection node and the capacitive element. Each of the rows of the pixel array includes first pixels connected to a first conversion gain control line and second pixels connected to a second conversion gain control line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210127079A1 IMAGE SENSOR Public/Granted day:2021-04-29
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