Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor and imaging device including the same
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Application No.: US17895385Application Date: 2022-08-25
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Publication No.: US11632508B2Publication Date: 2023-04-18
- Inventor: Ingyu Baek , Seungsik Kim
- 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: Volentine, Whitt & Francos, PLLC
- Priority: KR10-2020-0016900 20200212
- Main IPC: H04N5/359
- IPC: H04N5/359 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N5/378 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a pixel array with first and second pixels respectively having first and second conversion gains connected to row and column lines; a row driver determining a selection row line among the row lines; a readout circuit obtaining first and second pixel signals from first and second pixels connected to the selection row line; a column driver generating first and second image data from the first and second pixel signals; and an image signal processor using the first and second image data to generate an object image. The second pixels include an expansion capacitor connected between a floating diffusion node and a ground node. Exposure time of the first pixels is equal to or longer than exposure time of the second pixels. An area of a light receiving region of the first pixels is equal to an area of a light receiving region of the second pixels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220417456A1 IMAGE SENSOR AND IMAGING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2022-12-29
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