Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-resolution pixel architecture with shared floating diffusion nodes
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Application No.: US14723233Application Date: 2015-05-27
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Publication No.: US09686486B2Publication Date: 2017-06-20
- Inventor: Richard A. Mauritzson , Marko Mlinar
- Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
- 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, P.C.
- Agent Zachary D. Hadd
- Main IPC: H04N5/347
- IPC: H04N5/347 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/343 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
An image sensor may include an array of image photodiodes formed in rows and columns. The array of image photodiodes may include a region of photodiodes arranged in three adjacent rows and three adjacent columns of the array. The region of photodiodes may include four non-adjacent photodiodes, each of which generates charge in response to the same color of light. The four non-adjacent photodiodes may be coupled to a shared floating diffusion node. Each of the four non-adjacent photodiodes may transfer generated charge to the shared floating diffusion node. The charges from each of the four non-adjacent photodiodes may be summed at the shared floating diffusion node and read out as a summed signal or may be individually transferred to the shared floating diffusion node and read out individually.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160353034A1 MULTI-RESOLUTION PIXEL ARCHITECTURE WITH SHARED FLOATING DIFFUSION NODES Public/Granted day:2016-12-01
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