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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2018
Applicant:

Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Chen-Wei Lu, San Jose, CA (US);

Dajiang Yang, San Jose, CA (US);

Oray Orkun Cellek, Mountain View, CA (US);

Duli Mao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); G02B 5/201 (2013.01); G02B 5/205 (2013.01); H01L 27/14607 (2013.01); H01L 27/14685 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a high-dynamic-range color image sensor includes (a) depositing a color filter layer on a silicon substrate having a photosensitive pixel array with a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, to form (i) a plurality of first color filters above a first subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels and (ii) a plurality of second color filters above a second subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, wherein thickness of the second color filters exceeds thickness of the first color filters, and (b) depositing, on the color filter layer, a dynamic-range extending layer including grey filters above the second pixels to attenuate light propagating toward the second pixels, combined thickness of the color filter layer and the dynamic-range extending layer being uniform across the photosensitive pixel array.


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