摘要:
The present invention provides an image sensor and a method for fabricating the image sensor. The image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, photodiodes (PD), deep isolation trenches, first deep P-well blocks and second deep P-wells. The isolation trenches surrounds the PDs, and each of the isolation trenches is separated from any adjacent isolation trenches at a crossing where they would have crossed each other if they further extended. The first deep P-wells blocks have projections on the semiconductor substrate, which encompass projections of said separated portions of the isolation trenches on the semiconductor substrate. The first P-well blocks can be formed using only one photomask, resulting in a reduction in cost.
摘要:
The present invention provides a dual conversion gain image sensor comprising: a pixel circuit, through which pixel power supply voltage noise is transferred to a bit line; a power supply noise cancellation circuit with an input to which the pixel power supply voltage is applied, the power supply noise cancellation circuit mimicly producing a first transfer function with the aid of a low conversion gain path, the power supply noise cancellation circuit mimicly producing a second transfer function with the aid of a high conversion gain path; and a comparator. According to the present invention, the low and high conversion gain paths are two independent power supply noise cancellation paths that result in different transfer functions capable of tracking the variation of the pixel power supply voltage in low and high conversion gain modes.
摘要:
Methods and systems for JPEG encoding and decoding are disclosed. In the encoding method, an image is split into 8×8 pixel blocks and the 8×8 pixel blocks are grouped into a number of minimum coded units (MCU's), such that each MCU consists of a constant number of 8×8 pixel blocks. The MCU's are then scanned to forward discrete cosine transform, quantization, zigzag scanning and entropy encoding processes and are subsequently converted into bitstreams according to entropy encoding coding tables. In the entropy encoding process, AC coefficients are run-length encoded, while DC coefficients are not subjected to differential pulse-code modulation. The bitstreams are byte-aligned by stuffing zeroes and compression data for a special JPEG file are generated from the byte-aligned bitstreams. A position table is established, recording positions of the bitstreams in the compression data. The method enables fast positioning of bitstreams corresponding to an image region of interest.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing LCOS panel is disclosed. The method includes: providing a silicon substrate on which at least one conductive pad is formed and a transparent substrate on which a transparent electrode layer is formed; dispensing or coating a sealing material on a predetermined area of the silicon substrate or the transparent substrate; bonding the silicon substrate with the transparent substrate; singulating the bonded silicon substrate and transparent substrate such that at least one space is provided between the silicon substrate and the transparent substrate on an outer side of the sealing material and a part of the transparent electrode layer is exposed in the space; and dispensing a conductive adhesive into the space to connect the transparent electrode layer to the conductive pad. The method is able to achieve a smaller-size of the LCOS panels, a higher production yield and a lower process requirement.
摘要:
Methods, system and apparatuses for carrier frequency offset estimation are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a preamble sequence rn with a correlator and correlating the preamble sequence with a locally stored Barker code bn to obtain a correlation result cn; extracting peak values from every L points in cn to form a peak value sequence xn, L being a length of a Barker code that corresponds to the sampling rate; performing frequency offset estimation to xn by using at least two frequency offset estimation apparatuses, the at least two frequency offset estimation apparatuses adopting different delay parameters D; and inputting the results output from the at least two frequency offset estimation apparatuses into a frequency offset combination module to calculate a final carrier frequency offset estimate, whereby accurate frequency estimation can be achieved and an appropriate acquisition range of frequency offset can be ensured.
摘要:
Methods and apparatuses for channel estimation are disclosed. The method includes: converting −1's in a local Barker code to 0's; receiving a first preamble symbol output from a first Barker correlator and a second preamble symbol output from a second Barker correlator with a symbol determination module, the first preamble symbol being adjacent to the second preamble symbol; multiplying a result output from the symbol determination module with a correlation result output from the cyclic Barker correlator by using a multiplication module so as to obtain a channel estimation response; and receiving channel estimation responses with a time-domain channel data storage unit, and averaging them to obtain a noise-reduced channel estimation response. The channel estimation method and apparatus of the present invention can be achieved based on few hardware resources and low computation complexity.
摘要:
A method of manufacturing LCOS panel is disclosed. The method includes: providing a silicon substrate on which at least one conductive pad is formed and a transparent substrate on which a transparent electrode layer is formed; dispensing or coating a sealing material on a predetermined area of the silicon substrate or the transparent substrate; bonding the silicon substrate with the transparent substrate; singulating the bonded silicon substrate and transparent substrate such that at least one space is provided between the silicon substrate and the transparent substrate on an outer side of the sealing material and a part of the transparent electrode layer is exposed in the space; and dispensing a conductive adhesive into the space to connect the transparent electrode layer to the conductive pad. The method is able to achieve a smaller-size of the LCOS panels, a higher production yield and a lower process requirement.
摘要:
An image sensor and an electronic device are disclosed. At least one pixel in the image sensor includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion region and a transfer transistor located between the photodiode and the floating diffusion region. The photodiode includes a carrier-accumulation region, and a gate of the transfer transistor extends up to the carrier-accumulation region. The gate extends away from the floating diffusion region and overlaps over half of a width of the carrier-accumulation region. Since carriers move at a higher speed in a fast transfer channel in the semiconductor substrate around such a gate, increasing the length of the transfer transistor's gate extending away from the floating diffusion region and overlapping range with the carrier-accumulation region can facilitate fast movement of carriers from the carrier-accumulation region through such fast transfer channels to the floating diffusion region, thereby improving overall carrier transfer efficiency and optimizing performance thereof.
摘要:
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure is disclosed, in which a pad above a connecting section and metal structures above a functional section are formed from the same metal layer. This design enables the simultaneous formation of the pad and the metal structures by forming a single metal layer and performing thereon a selective etching process, thereby leading to the advantages of process simplification, throughput improvement and cost reduction.
摘要:
A housing for protecting a wafer-level camera module and fixing the wafer-level camera module to a printed circuit board (PCB) includes: four side plates, defining a quadrilateral frame; four supporting plates each fixed to a lower portion of an inner face of a corresponding one of the four side plates, each supporting plate having a top face supporting a portion of the camera module; and four bottom plates each fixed to a lower portion of an outer face of a corresponding one of the four side plates, each bottom plate having a bottom face fixed to the PCB. The housing is capable of addressing the issues of poor housing-PCB soldering, paint falling off and surface scratching and improving the efficiency in UV lamp-utilized UV adhesive curing.