Xerox Corporation

Narayan K Kadekodi

Abd-el-Fattah A Ibrahim

Jagdish C Tandon

Roland J Handy

James C Stoffel

Larry S Shey-Ping

A high density charge coupled device imaging array 88 with a bilinear array of photosites on a single integrated circuit chip is utilized in an image scanning configuration. Offset photosites 90a, 94a in the two separated rows are coupled via transfer gates 98, 106 to storage registers 104, 108 and then to two shift registers 110, 112, and via transfer gates 96 directly to two shift registers 100, 102 in a quadrilinear array. The output of these four shift registers 110,102,110,112 are multiplexed to generate a single output pulse train representative of the information scanned. By separating the offset rows 90, 94 of photosites by a row 92 therebetween, the necessity for accurate alignment of the photosite areas is reduced.

High density CCD imager

A barrier gate isolated channel charge coupled device integrated circuit imager which permits the barrier gate to define the transfer channel from an inner shift register to an outer shift register to the exclusion of the field oxide layer. By extending the length of the barrier gate slightly and bringing the storage gate down and out around each barrier gate, and widening the field oxide dimension, relative to one another, the buried channel potential voltage remains high allowing for more efficient charge transfer or, if desired, the isolated channel dimension can be decreased while still maintaining a high minimum buried channel potential voltage.

High resolution quadrilinear CCD imager

A high density charge coupled device imaging array 58 with a bilinear array 60, 62 of photosites on a single integrated circuit chip is utilized in an image scanning configuration. Offset photosites 60a, 62a in two rows are coupled via transfer gates 64 to storage register 72 and then to two shift registers 74, 76, and via transfer gates 66 directly to two shift registers 68, 70 in a quadrilinear array. The output of these four shift registers 68, 70, 74, 76 are multiplexed to generate a single output pulse train representative of the information scanned.

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Narayan K Kadekodi