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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2022
Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sangjoo Lee, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Rui Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xuelian Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Min Qu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liang Zuo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Selcuk Sen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hiroaki Ebihara, San Jose, CA (US);
Lihang Fan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An imaging device includes a pixel array of 1×3 pixel circuits that include 3 photodiodes in a column. Bitlines are coupled to the 1×3 pixel circuits. The bitlines are divided into groupings of 3 bitlines per column of the 1×3 pixel circuits. Each column of the 1×3 pixel circuits includes a plurality of first banks coupled to a first bitline, a plurality of second banks coupled to a second bitline, and a plurality of third banks coupled to a third bitline of a respective grouping of the 3 bitlines. The 1×3 pixel circuits are arranged into groupings of 3 1×3 pixel circuits per nine cell pixel structures that form a plurality of 3×3 pixel structures of the pixel array.