Method and apparatus providing imager pixels with shared...

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2011-06-21

2011-06-21

Landau, Matthew C (Department: 2813)

Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode

Responsive to non-electrical signal

Electromagnetic or particle radiation

C257S291000, C257SE27131, C438S059000, C438S199000, C348S308000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07964929

ABSTRACT:
The disclosed embodiments employ shared pixel component architectures that arrange the shared pixel components for a group of pixels within different pixels of the group.

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