Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area

Details Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area Active pixel sensor with a diagonal active area

2007-05-07

2009-11-10

Ho, Tuan V (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Solid-state image sensor

C348S294000, C348S302000, C250S208100, C257S291000, C257S292000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07616245

ABSTRACT:
An imaging device formed as a CMOS semiconductor integrated circuit having two adjacent pixels in a row connected to a common column line. By having adjacent pixels of a row share column lines, the CMOS imager circuit eliminates half the column lines of a traditional imager allowing the fabrication of a smaller imager. The imaging device also may be fabricated to have a diagonal active area to facilitate contact of two adjacent pixels with the single column line and allow linear row select lines, reset lines and column lines.

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