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Patent No.:

US 10840277 B1

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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2013
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Shinjiro Kameda, Kanagawa, JP;

Eiichi Funatsu, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/146 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/14601 (2013.01); H01L 27/1463 (2013.01); H01L 27/14603 (2013.01);
Abstract

A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes an imaging region having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, in which the imaging region includes an effective pixel and a black reference pixel; and a shape of a floating diffusion portion in the effective pixel is different from that of a floating diffusion portion in the black reference pixel.


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Kameda, Shinjiro. (2020). Solid state imaging device having variation in optical black pixel structures relative to image generating pixel structures to provide substantially equivalent dark current (U.S. Patent No. 10840277). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10840277

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