公开(公告)号：US11765473B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US17174631

申请日：2021-02-12

申请人： NIKON CORPORATION

发明人： Atsushi Komai ,  Yoshiyuki Watanabe ,  Osamu Saruwatari

IPC分类号： H01L27/146 ,  H04N25/59 ,  H04N25/46 ,  H04N25/57 ,  H04N25/77 ,  H04N23/667 ,  H04N25/75

CPC分类号： H04N25/59 ,  H01L27/14603 ,  H01L27/14612 ,  H01L27/14636 ,  H01L27/14641 ,  H01L27/14643 ,  H04N25/46 ,  H04N25/57 ,  H04N25/77 ,  H04N23/667 ,  H04N25/75

摘要： An image sensor includes a plurality of pixel blocks and a connection unit. The plurality of pixel blocks includes: a diffusion unit to which an electric charge resulting from photoelectric conversion is transferred; and a transistor containing a source electrically connected with the diffusion unit. The connection unit is electrically connected with a drain of the transistor included in each of the plurality of pixel blocks.

公开(公告)号：US10686001B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US15765202

申请日：2016-09-26

申请人： NIKON CORPORATION

发明人： Toru Takagi ,  Satoshi Nakayama ,  Ryoji Ando ,  Takashi Seo ,  Yohei Matsuoka ,  Yoshiyuki Watanabe

IPC分类号： H01L27/146 ,  H01L31/0232 ,  H04N5/374

摘要： An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light transmitted through a microlens to generate electric charge; an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; and a transfer unit that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit, wherein: the photoelectric conversion unit, the transfer unit, and the accumulation unit are provided along a direction of an optical axis of the microlens.

公开(公告)号：US11910113B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17056064

申请日：2019-05-22

申请人： NIKON CORPORATION

发明人： Ryoji Ando ,  Toru Takagi ,  Shutaro Kato ,  Yoshiyuki Watanabe ,  Takashi Seo

IPC分类号： H04N25/75 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N25/766 ,  H04N25/772

CPC分类号： H04N25/75 ,  H01L27/14612 ,  H01L27/14623 ,  H04N25/766 ,  H04N25/772

摘要： An image sensor includes: a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate an electric charge; a first output unit that outputs a first signal based on the electric charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit; a plurality of second photoelectric conversion units that photoelectrically convert light to generate electric charges; a plurality of second output units that output second signals based on the electric charges generated by the second photoelectric conversion units; an output line to which the first output unit and the plurality of second output units are connected, and from which at least one of the first signal and the second signals is output; a first control line for controlling the output of the first signal from the first output unit; and second control lines for controlling the outputs of the second signals from the plurality of second output units.

公开(公告)号：US10958856B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-23

申请号：US16562995

申请日：2019-09-06

申请人： NIKON CORPORATION

发明人： Atsushi Komai ,  Yoshiyuki Watanabe ,  Osamu Saruwatari

IPC分类号： G06K9/32 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/347 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/232 ,  H04N5/378

摘要： A solid-state image sensor includes: a plurality of pixels, each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge accumulating unit that accumulates an electric charge from the photoelectric conversion unit; and a connection unit that includes a plurality of linking units each of which electrically connects the charge accumulating units of two adjacent pixels among the plurality of pixels.

公开(公告)号：US11523082B2

公开(公告)日：2022-12-06

申请号：US16648153

申请日：2018-09-27

申请人： NIKON CORPORATION

发明人： Ryoji Ando ,  Yoshiyuki Watanabe

IPC分类号： H04N5/378 ,  H01L27/146 ,  H04N5/355 ,  H04N5/3745 ,  H04N5/353

摘要： An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to generate an electric charge; a holding unit that holds the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; an accumulation unit that accumulates the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit; a first transfer path that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit; and a second transfer path that transfers the electric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit to the accumulation unit via the holding unit.