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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2015
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Culver City, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kazunori Tanaka, Irvine, CA (US);
Assignees:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC., Culver City, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G02F 1/01 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); G02F 1/0121 (2013.01); G02F 2203/12 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image sensor, including: a sensing layer having a plurality of sensing elements, each sensing element configured to record impinging photons; and an attenuation layer coupled to the sensing layer, the attenuation layer configured with a plurality of attenuation elements to modulate light incident on the sensing layer. Key words include sensing layer and attenuation layer.