Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Incoherent light emitter structure – With reflector – opaque mask – or optical element integral...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-12-13
2005-12-13
Nelms, David (Department: 2818)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Incoherent light emitter structure
With reflector, opaque mask, or optical element integral...
C257S222000, C257S232000, C257S233000, C257S291000, C257S292000, C348S322000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06974975
ABSTRACT:
A solid-state imaging device comprising: a semiconductor substrate having a first surface; and a plurality of light-receiving sections arranged in an array pattern on the first surface of the semiconductor substrate, the solid-state imaging device reading a stored electric charge in each of the light-receiving sections, wherein each of the light-receiving sections comprises: a first signal electric charge storage section that stores a first signal electric charge corresponding to an incident light energy; and a second signal electric charge storage section that stores at least part of an excessive electric charge, the at least part of the excessive electric charge being captured from the first signal electric charge storage section, when the electric charge stored in the first signal electric charge storage section exceeds a saturated electric charge amount of the first signal electric charge section to form the excessive electric charge.
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Birch & Stewart Kolasch & Birch, LLP
Nelms David
Tran Mai-Huong
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