Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging devices with gated time-of-flight pixels with fast charge transfer
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Application No.: US17610257Application Date: 2020-05-21
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Publication No.: US12010449B2Publication Date: 2024-06-11
- Inventor: Frederick Brady , Adarsh Basavalingappa , Taisuke Suwa , Michiel Timmermans , Sungin Hwang
- Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Sheridan Ross PC
- International Application: PCT/IB2020/000398 2020.05.21
- International Announcement: WO2020/234648A 2020.11.26
- Date entered country: 2021-11-10
- Main IPC: H04N25/76
- IPC: H04N25/76 ; G01S7/4863 ; G01S17/894 ; H01L27/146

Abstract:
A pixel array includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion region that converts incident light into electric charge, and a charge transfer section coupled to the photoelectric conversion region and having line symmetry along a first axis in a plan view. The charge transfer section includes a first transfer transistor coupled to a first floating diffusion and the photoelectric conversion region and located at a first side of the photoelectric conversion region, and a second transfer transistor coupled to a second floating diffusion and the photoelectric conversion region and located at the first side of the photoelectric conversion region.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220247952A1 IMAGING DEVICES WITH GATED TIME-OF-FLIGHT PIXELS WITH FAST CHARGE TRANSFER Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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