Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Light-condensing unit, solid-state image sensor, and image capture device
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Application No.: US14334771Application Date: 2014-07-18
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Publication No.: US09673241B2Publication Date: 2017-06-06
- Inventor: Seiji Nishiwaki , Tatsuya Nakamura
- Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar. LLP
- Priority: JP2012-262739 20121130
- Main IPC: H04N5/225
- IPC: H04N5/225 ; H01L27/146 ; H04N5/33 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
A solid-state image sensor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a photodetector array 100 in which photodetectors A and B are arranged two-dimensionally within an image capturing plane. Some of those photodetectors B located in multiple different mutually intersecting directions with respect to each photodetector A are adjacent to the photodetector A. The sensor further includes a light-splitting element array 200 in which a plurality of light-splitting elements 30, each including a phase filter 3, are arranged two-dimensionally and which is configured so that each of the light-splitting elements 30 faces an associated one of the photodetectors A. The phase filter 3 makes light falling within a first wavelength range incident on the photodetector A that the phase filter 3 faces, and makes light falling within a second wavelength range incident on the photodetectors B that are adjacent to the photodetector A.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140327783A1 LIGHT-CONDENSING UNIT, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR, AND IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-11-06
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