Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image sensor with wide operating range
- Patent Title (中): 图像传感器,工作范围宽
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Application No.: US12218287Application Date: 2008-07-14
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Publication No.: US08068157B2Publication Date: 2011-11-29
- Inventor: Sang-Il Jung , Min-Young Jung
- Applicant: Sang-Il Jung , Min-Young Jung
- Applicant Address: KR Suwon-si
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Suwon-si
- Agent Monica H. Choi
- Priority: KR10-2007-0071330 20070716
- Main IPC: H04N3/14
- IPC: H04N3/14 ; H01L27/92 ; H01L29/26 ; H01L29/02

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a photoelectric converter, a source-follower transistor, and a selection transistor. The photoelectric converter generates electric charge in response to received light, and the electric charge varies a voltage of a detection node. The source-follower transistor is coupled between the detection node and an output node and has a first threshold voltage. The selection transistor is coupled between the source-follower transistor and a voltage node with a power supply voltage or a boosted voltage applied thereon, and has a second threshold voltage with a magnitude that is less than a magnitude of the first threshold voltage such that the source-follower transistor operates in saturation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090027529A1 Image sensor with wide operating range Public/Granted day:2009-01-29
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