Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time-of-flight imaging systems
- Patent Title (中): 飞行时间成像系统
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Application No.: US13278019Application Date: 2011-10-20
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Publication No.: US09229096B2Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Dongsoo Kim , Jae Eun Lim , Kwangbo Cho
- Applicant: Dongsoo Kim , Jae Eun Lim , Kwangbo Cho
- Applicant Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Current Assignee: Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Phoenix
- Agency: Treyz Law Group
- Agent Kendall P. Woodruff
- Main IPC: H01L31/16
- IPC: H01L31/16 ; G01S7/486 ; H04N5/225 ; H04N5/232 ; G01S17/89 ; G01J1/42 ; G01J1/44 ; H01L27/148 ; H04N5/359 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N13/02

Abstract:
Electronic devices may include time-of-flight image pixels. A time-of-flight image pixel may include first and second charge storage regions coupled to a photosensor and a transfer transistor with a gate terminal coupled to the first storage region. An electronic device may further include a light pulse emitter configured to emit pulses of light to be reflected by objects in a scene. Reflected portions of the emitted pulses of light may be captured along with background light by the time-of-flight image pixels. Time-of-flight image pixels may be configured sense the time-of-flight of the reflected portions of the emitted pulses. The electronic device may include processing circuitry configured to use the sensed time-of-flight of the reflected portions to generate depth images of a scene. Depth images may include depth-image pixel values that contain information corresponding to the distance of the objects in the scene from the electronic device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130026384A1 TIME-OF-FLIGHT IMAGING SYSTEMS Public/Granted day:2013-01-31
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