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公开(公告)号:US20250081656A1
公开(公告)日:2025-03-06
申请号:US18461320
申请日:2023-09-05
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Bill Phan , Duli Mao , Seong Yeol Mun
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: An image sensor is described. The image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels arranged to form an active pixel array, a plurality of contact pads disposed within a peripheral region of the image sensor that surrounds the active pixel array, and an optical structure disposed within the peripheral region between the plurality of contact pads and the active pixel array. The optical structure is adapted to mitigate stray light from reaching the active pixel array.
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公开(公告)号:US11810928B2
公开(公告)日:2023-11-07
申请号:US17322536
申请日:2021-05-17
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Duli Mao , Bill Phan , Seong Yeol Mun , Yuanliang Liu , Alireza Bonakdar , Chengming Liu , Zhiqiang Lin
IPC: H01L27/146
CPC classification number: H01L27/14605 , H01L27/1465 , H01L27/14621 , H01L27/14623 , H01L27/14625 , H01L27/14627 , H01L27/14685
Abstract: CMOS image sensor with LED flickering reduction and low color cross-talk are disclosed. In one embodiment, an image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns of a pixel array that is disposed in a semiconductor substrate. Each pixel includes a plurality of large subpixels (LPDs) and at least one small subpixel (SPD). A plurality of color filters are disposed over individual subpixels. Each individual SPD is laterally adjacent to at least one other SPD.
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公开(公告)号:US20220352220A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-03
申请号:US17243024
申请日:2021-04-28
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Hui Zang , Yuanliang Liu , Keiji Mabuchi , Gang Chen , Bill Phan , Duli Mao , Takeshi Takeda
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: An image sensor comprises a first photodiode region and circuitry. The first photodiode region is disposed within a semiconductor substrate proximate to a first side of the semiconductor substrate to form a first pixel. The first photodiode region includes a first segment coupled to a second segment. The circuitry includes at least a first electrode associated with a first transistor. The first electrode is disposed, at least in part, between the first segment and the second segment of the first photodiode region such that the circuity is at least partially surrounded by the first photodiode region when viewed from the first side of the semiconductor substrate.
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公开(公告)号:US20210202554A1
公开(公告)日:2021-07-01
申请号:US16730137
申请日:2019-12-30
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Yuanliang Liu , Bill Phan , Duli Mao
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: A pixel cell includes a first photodiode, a second photodiode, a first deep trench isolation region, a second deep trench isolation region, a buffer oxide layer, and a light attenuation layer. The attenuation layer partially encapsulates the first photodiode by extending laterally from the first deep trench isolation region to the second deep trench isolation region between the semiconductor material and the buffer oxide layer.
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公开(公告)号:US20210151482A1
公开(公告)日:2021-05-20
申请号:US16687660
申请日:2019-11-18
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Bill Phan , Yuanliang Liu , Duli Mao , Seong Yeol Mun , Alireza Bonakdar
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: An image sensor includes a substrate material. The substrate material includes a plurality of photodiodes disposed therein. The plurality of photodiodes includes a plurality of small photodiodes (SPDs) and a plurality of large photodiodes (LPDs) larger than the SPDs. An array of color filters is disposed over the substrate material. A buffer layer is disposed between the substrate material and the array of color filters. A metal pattern is disposed between the color filters in the array of color filters, and between the array of color filters and the buffer layer. An attenuation layer is disposed between the substrate material and the array of color filters. The attenuation layer is above and aligned with the plurality of SPDs and a portion of each of the plurality of LPDs. An edge of the attenuation layer is over one of the plurality of LPDs.
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公开(公告)号:US20200099878A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-26
申请号:US16141584
申请日:2018-09-25
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson Tai , Lindsay Grant
IPC: H04N5/376 , H01L27/146 , H04N5/378
Abstract: An image sensor pixel comprises a first charge storage node configured to have a first charge storage electric potential; a second charge storage node configured to have a second charge storage electric potential and receive charge from the first charge storage node, wherein the second charge storage electric potential is greater than the first charge storage electric potential; and a transfer circuit coupled between the first and the second charge storage nodes, wherein the transfer circuit comprises at least three transfer regions, wherein: a first transfer region is proximate to the first charge storage node and configured to have a first transfer electric potential greater than the first charge storage electric potential and lower than the second charge storage electric potential; a second transfer region is coupled between the first and a third transfer region and configured to have a second transfer electric potential greater than the first charge storage electric potential and lower than the second charge storage electric potential; and the third transfer region is proximate to the third charge storage node and configured to have a third transfer electric potential greater than the first charge storage electric potential and lower than the second charge storage electric potential. Charges are fully transferred from the first charge storage node to the second charge storage node after a plurality of transfer signal pulses.
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公开(公告)号:US10566364B2
公开(公告)日:2020-02-18
申请号:US16276561
申请日:2019-02-14
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Yuanwei Zheng , Gang Chen , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lequn Liu
IPC: H01L27/146
Abstract: A resonant-filter image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels and a microresonator layer above the pixel array. The microresonator layer includes a plurality of microresonators formed of a first material with an extinction coefficient less than 0.02 at a free-space wavelength of five hundred nanometers. Each of the plurality of pixels may have at least one of the plurality of microresonators at least partially thereabove. The resonant-filter image sensor may further include a layer covering the microresonator layer that has a second refractive index less than a first refractive index, the first refractive index being the refractive index of the first material. Each microresonator may be one of a parallelepiped, a cylinder, a spheroid, and a sphere.
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公开(公告)号:US10418408B1
公开(公告)日:2019-09-17
申请号:US16016057
申请日:2018-06-22
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Yuanwei Zheng , Chia-Chun Miao , Gang Chen , Yin Qian , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Grant
IPC: H01L27/146 , H04N5/378
Abstract: An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes arranged in an array and disposed in a semiconductor material to receive light through a first surface of the semiconductor material. At least part of the semiconductor material is curved. A carrier wafer is attached to a second surface, opposite the first surface, of the semiconductor material, and a polymer layer is attached to the carrier wafer, so that the carrier wafer is disposed between the polymer layer and the semiconductor material.
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公开(公告)号:US20180249105A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-30
申请号:US15443783
申请日:2017-02-27
Applicant: OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventor: Gang Chen , Qin Wang , Duli Mao , Dyson H. Tai , Lindsay Alexander Grant
CPC classification number: H04N5/3696 , H04N5/23212 , H04N5/3742 , H04N5/378 , H04N9/045
Abstract: An image sensor includes an array of split dual photodiode (DPD) pairs. First groupings of the array of split DPD pairs consist entirely of either first-dimension split DPD pairs or entirely of second-dimension split DPD pairs. Each first grouping of the array of split DPD pairs consisting of the first-dimension split DPD pairs is adjacent to an other first grouping of the array of split DPD pairs consisting of the second-dimension split DPD pairs. The first-dimension is orthogonal to the second-dimension. A plurality of floating diffusion (FD) regions is arranged in each first grouping of the split DPD pairs. Each one of a plurality of transfer transistors is coupled to a respective photodiode of a respective split DPD pair, and is coupled between the respective photodiode and a respective one of the plurality of FD regions.
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公开(公告)号:US20180124372A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-03
申请号:US15341374
申请日:2016-11-02
Applicant: OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Inventor: Zheng Yang , Eiichi Funatsu , Sohei Manabe , Keiji Mabuchi , Dajiang Yang , Duli Mao , Bowei Zhang
CPC classification number: H04N13/106 , G01B11/24 , G06T5/001 , G06T5/50 , G06T7/586 , G06T7/593 , G06T2207/10028 , G06T2207/10144 , G06T2207/10152 , G06T2207/20224 , H01L27/146 , H01L27/14614 , H01L27/14643 , H04N5/3535 , H04N5/37452 , H04N5/378 , H04N13/254 , H04N13/271 , H04N2013/0092
Abstract: An active depth imaging system and method of operating the same captures illuminator-on and illuminator-off image data with each of a first and second imager. The illuminator-on image data includes information representing an imaged scene and light emitted from an illuminator and reflected off of objects within the imaged scene. The illuminator-off image data includes information representing the imaged scene without the light emitted from the illuminator. For each image set captured by the first and second imagers, illuminator-off image data is subtracted from the illuminator-on image data to identify the illuminated light within the scene. The depth of an object at which the light is incident on then is determined by the subtracted image data of the first and second imagers.
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