Thursday, September 05, 2013
Omnivision Applies for Horizontal Power Line Patent
Omnivision's patent application US20130221194 "Enhanced Pixel Cell Architecture for an Image Sensor" by Sohei Manabe continues to improve the pixel with no SEL transistor. The incremental improvement idea is to route pixel power line in row-wise direction. This is done to prevent the off-state leakage influence from many buried channel SF transistors connected to the same power line, if routed in parallel to bitline:
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Not being a pixel expert, not having read the patent application, and only judging from the figure and claim: what would be different to the pixel proposed by Aptina in their 2009 IISW paper (figure 4b)? http://www.imagesensors.org/Past%20Workshops/2009%20Workshop/2009%20Papers/016_paper_agranov_aptina_smallpix.pdf
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