公开(公告)号：WO2018208386A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-15

申请号：PCT/US2018/025614

申请日：2018-04-02

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： AGRANOV, Gennadiy A. ,  CHEN, QingFei ,  CELLEK, Oray O. ,  LI, Xiangli

IPC: H04N5/359 ,  H04N5/3745

Abstract: Imaging apparatus (20) includes a photosensitive medium (22) and a bias electrode (32), which is at least partially transparent, overlying the photosensitive medium. An array of pixel circuits (26) is formed on a semiconductor substrate (30). Each pixel circuit includes a pixel electrode (24) coupled to collect the charge carriers from the photosensitive medium; a readout circuit (75) configured to output a signal indicative of a quantity of the charge carriers collected by the pixel electrode; a skimming gate (48) coupled between the pixel electrode and the readout circuit; and a shutter gate (46) coupled in parallel with the skimming gate between a node (74) in the pixel circuit and a sink site. The shutter gate and the skimming gate are opened sequentially in each of a sequence of image frames so as to apply a global shutter to the array and then to read out the collected charge carriers via the skimming gate to the readout circuit.

公开(公告)号：EP3963633A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-09

申请号：EP20742584.4

申请日：2020-06-26

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： AGRANOV, Gennadiy A. ,  BEILEY, Zachary M. ,  PATTANTYUS-ABRAHAM, Andras G. ,  CELLEK, Oray O. ,  FAN, Xiaofeng ,  ROSENBLUM, Gershon ,  LI, Xiangli ,  MANDELLI, Emanuele ,  BUETTGEN, Bernhard ,  SHAO, Yuchuan

IPC: H01L27/146 ,  H01L23/522