Active solid-state devices (e.g. – transistors – solid-state diode – Field effect device – Having insulated electrode
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Tran, Minh-Loan (Department: 2826)
Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diode
Field effect device
Having insulated electrode
C257S440000, C257S443000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06998660
ABSTRACT:
An array of vertical color filter (VCF) sensor groups, each VCF sensor group including at least two vertically stacked, photosensitive sensors. Preferably, the array is fabricated, or the readout circuitry is configured (or has a state in which it is configured), to combine the outputs of sensors of multiple sensor groups such that the array emulates a conventional array of single-layer sensors arranged in a Bayer pattern or other single-layer sensor pattern, and such that the outputs of at least substantially all of the sensors of each of the VCF sensor groups are utilized to emulate the array of single-layer sensors.
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Lyon Richard F.
Merrill Richard B.
Foveon, Inc.
Girard & Equitz LLP
Tran Minh-Loan
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