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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7355227 | Detecting pixel matrix integrated into a charge reader circuit A matrix of detection pixels and a photoelectric detector that includes a matrix of detection pixels and a reading circuit of loads detected by the detection pixels of the matrix. A detection pixel includes a photosensitive semi-conductor area with a first face cove... | 04/08/2008 |
| 6670656 | Current-amplifying logarithmic mode CMOS image sensor A current-amplifying logarithmic mode CMOS image sensor having a first MOS transistor, a second MOS transistor, a third MOS transistor and a sensing device. The gate terminal and the first connection terminal of the first MOS transistor are tied to a high... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6657179 | Phototransistor light sensor having a feedback arrangement A light sensor having increased sensitivity and improved reaction speed includes a phototransistor and a source-follower transistor as an impedance converter for a potential of a main electrode of the phototransistor, and a second transistor as a feedback... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6136635 | Method for forming a bipolar-based active pixel sensor cell with poly contact and increased capacitive coupling to the base region The dynamic range is increased and the noise level is reduced in a bipolar-based active pixel sensor cell with a capacitively coupled base region by forming the capacitor over a portion of the base region and the field oxide region of the cell. In additio... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6080601 | Method for forming a bipolar-based active pixel sensor cell with metal contact and increased capacitive coupling to the base region The dynamic range is increased and the noise level is reduced in a bipolar-based active pixel sensor cell with a capacitively coupled base region by forming the capacitor over a portion of the base region and the field oxide region of the cell. In additio... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5985689 | Method of fabricating photoelectric conversion device having at least one step-back layer A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a signal output unit. The signal output unit has at least one storage device for storing electrical signals generated by the photoelectric conversion device. A sc... | 11/16/1999 |
| 5982012 | Pixel cells and pixel cell arrays having low leakage and improved performance characteristics The present invention relates to a pixel cell and pixel cell array modified to improve performance. One improvement taught by the present invention is implantation of dopant into the silicon to form the base region after formation of polysilicon, resultin... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5932873 | Capacitor-coupled bipolar active pixel sensor with integrated electronic shutter A capacitor coupled bipolar phototransistor having an integrated electronic shutter for reducing the overflow and blooming problems associated with the imaging of strong images. Overflow control and an anti-blooming mechanism are obtained by use of a seco... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5776795 | Method of making a contactless capacitor-coupled bipolar active pixel sensor with intergrated electronic shutter A contactless capacitor coupled bipolar phototransistor having an integrated electronic shutter for reducing the overflow and blooming problems associated with the imaging of strong images. Overflow control and an anti-blooming mechanism are obtained by u... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5763909 | Integrating imaging system with phototransistor having wide dynamic range A bipolar phototransistor comprises both an Integrating photosensor and a switching element. The base terminal of the bipolar phototransistor is utilized as the switch-control node for the pixel and its emitter is the output node of the integrating photos... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5757040 | Real-time semiconductor radiation detector Semiconductor radial rays detector is provided that improves a breakdown voltage yield of a gate insulating film of a semiconductor radial rays detector and prevents an increase in resistance of a gate electrode caused by the improvement in the breakdown ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5734191 | Contactless capacitor-coupled bipolar active pixel sensor with integrated electronic shutter A contactless capacitor coupled bipolar phototransistor having an integrated electronic shutter for reducing the overflow and blooming problems associated with the imaging of strong images. Overflow control and an anti-blooming mechanism are obtained by u... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5723877 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus of this invention has a high sensitivity and low noise, and can be formed to have a large area at a relatively low temperature since it has a light absorption layer (310), formed of a non-monocrystalline material, for ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5708281 | Semiconductor device and photoelectric conversion apparatus using the same A semiconductor device comprises an emitter of first conductivity type, a base of second conductivity type, and a collector of first conductivity type. At least a vicinity of an interface of the emitter to base junction is formed by Si. Polycrystalline or... | 01/13/1998 |
| 5705846 | CMOS-compatible active pixel image array using vertical pnp cell A preferred pnp bipolar phototransistor pixel element in accordance with the present invention has a p-type collector region formed in p-type semiconductor material. An n-type base region is formed in the collector region. A p-type emitter region is forme... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5691546 | Semiconductor device having a high current gain and a higher Ge amount at the base region than at the emitter and collector regions, and photoelectric conversion apparatus using the device A semiconductor device comprises at least an emitter region of a first conductivity type, a base region of a second conductivity type, and a collector region of a first conductivity type. The base region essentially consists of Si1-X GeX | 11/25/1997 |
| 5604364 | Photoelectric converter with vertical output lines A photoelectric converter comprising a photosensor element, a typical example of the photosensor element comprising: a transistor including an n or n+ collector region an n- region disposed contiguous to the collector region, a p bas... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5591960 | Photoelectric converter with signal processing A photoelectric converter has photodetectors having plural arrays wherein plural photoreceiving elements are arranged for detecting incident light. The converter has a reading circuit for reading an output signal from the photodetector, the reading circui... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5589705 | Real-time semiconductor radiation detector Semiconductor radial rays detector is provided that improves a breakdown voltage yield of a gate insulating film of a semiconductor radial rays detector and prevents an increase in resistance of a gate electrode caused by the improvement in the breakdown ... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5566044 | Base capacitor coupled photosensor with emitter tunnel oxide for very wide dynamic range in a contactless imaging array A technique for decreasing the effective gain of a bipolar phototransistor at high light levels makes the image usable over a greatly extended range of illumination conditions. The effective current gain at high light levels is reduced by fabricating a "n... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5563431 | Photoelectrical converter with refresh means A photoelectric converter is adapted for an accumulation operation, readout operation and refresh operation. The photoelectric converter includes a transistor including a control electrode region having a semiconductor of a first conductivity type, a firs... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5557121 | Laminated solid-state image sensing apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A solid-state image sensing apparatus including: a substrate having a charge storage portion capable of storing charges and an output circuit for outputting a signal in accordance with the charges stored in the storage portion; an insulating film formed o... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5506430 | Solid state image pick-up device with differing capacitances A solid state image pick-up device has a first pixel for outputting a first color signal and a second pixel for outputting a second color signal different from the first color signal. The first and second pixels have semiconductor junctions between the fi... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5481124 | Laminated solid-state image pickup device Compatibility of high sensitivity with low remaining images, and low crosstalk can be achieved by a laminated solid-state image pickup device, which includes accumulating portions for accumulating electric signals, reading units for reading the electric s... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5453629 | Photoelectric conversion device having at least one step-back layer A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units and a signal output unit. The signal output unit has at least one storage device for storing electrical signals generated by the photoelectric conversion device. A sc... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5424529 | Photoconversion device including reset means and biasing means A photoconversion device comprises a plurality of cells 1 each having a bipolar type sensor element T, the base of which is connected to a reset switch FET M and is also capacitively coupled to a control electrode. The device is read out by providing a po... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5414275 | Photoelectric converting device and image processing apparatus utilizing the same A photoelectric converting device with PIN structure includes an amorphous I-type semiconductor layer and charge injection blocking layers positioned to sandwich the I-type layer. At least one of the charge injection blocking layers comprises an amorphous... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5412243 | Photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a semiconductor area of a first type and a plurality of semiconductor areas of a second type for storing carriers produced by optical excitation. Adjacent semiconductor areas of the second type are used as main ... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5406332 | Photoelectric converting device A photoelectric converting device is provided with a control electrode area consisting of a semiconductor of a first conductive type, first and second main electrode areas consisting of a semiconductor of a second conductive type different from the first ... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5386108 | Photoelectric conversion device for amplifying and outputting photoelectrically converted signal, and a method thereof A photoelectric conversion device comprising a photoelectric conversion cell, as an individual pixel, comprises a first transistor having a control electrode region consisting of a semiconductor of one conduction type, and first and second main electrode ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5352920 | Photoelectric converter with light shielding sections A photoelectric converter comprised of a semiconductor transistor comprises two semiconductor regions of same electroconductive type and a semiconductor region of opposite electroconductive type to that of the two semiconductor regions. The semiconductor ... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5345266 | Matrix array image sensor chip A matrix array image sensor integrated circuit chip is provided including horizontal and vertical scanning means with the sensor cells within columns of the array being associated with an analogue charge sense amplifier. The analogue charge sense amplifie... | 09/06/1994 |
| 5324958 | Integrating imaging systgem having wide dynamic range with sample/hold circuits A bipolar phototransistor comprises both an integrating photosensor and a switching element. The base terminal of the bipolar phototransistor is utilized as the switch-control node for the pixel and its emitter is the output node of the integrating photos... | 06/28/1994 |
| 5299013 | Silicon butting contact image sensor with two-phase shift register An improved contact image sensor (CIS) which uses a two-phase shift register is disclosed. The shift register is clocked by both phases of the clock signal, thereby doubling its speed. A transmission gate in the shift register is eliminated and combined w... | 03/29/1994 |
| 5289023 | High-density photosensor and contactless imaging array having wide dynamic range A photosensing pixel element comprises a bipolar phototransistor used as both an integrating photosensor and a select device. The phototransistor is a vertical structure, having as its collector a first doped region of a first conductivity type disposed i... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5288988 | Photoconversion device having reset control circuitry A photoconversion device comprises plurality of cells 1 each having a bipolar type sensor element T, the base of which is connected to a reset switch FET M and is also capacitively coupled to a control electrode. The device is read out by providing a posi... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5283428 | Photoelectric converting device and information processing apparatus employing the same A photoelectric converting device provided with a control electrode area of a semiconductor of a first conductive type and at least two main electrode areas of a semiconductor of a second conductive type different from the first conductive type, and capab... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5276407 | Sense amplifier A plurality of integrating photosensors is disposed in an array of rows and columns, with a given row select line connected to the gates of P-channel MOS transistors associated with that given row and a given column sense line connected to the drains of t... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5260592 | Integrating photosensor and imaging system having wide dynamic range with varactors A bipolar phototransistor comprises both an integrating photosensor and a switching element. The base terminal of the bipolar phototransistor is utilized as the switch-control node for the pixel and its emitter is the output node of the integrating photos... | 11/09/1993 |
| 5260560 | Photoelectric transfer device A photoelectric transfer device comprises a light-absorbing layer which absorbs incident light to generate carriers a multiplying layer which multiplies the carriers and a light-shielding layer provided between the photoabsorbing layer and the multiplying... | 11/09/1993 |
