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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2022
Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Selcuk Sen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Liang Zuo, Milpitas, CA (US);
Rui Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Xuelian Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Min Qu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hiroaki Ebihara, San Jose, CA (US);
OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method of reducing resistance-capacitance delay along photodiode transfer lines of an image sensor includes forking a plurality of photodiode transfer lines each into a plurality of sublines coupled together and to a first decoder-driver at a first end of each subline; and distributing selection transistors of a plurality of multiple-photodiode cells among the plurality of sublines. In embodiments, the sublines may be recombined at a second end of the sublines and driven by a second decoder-driver at the second end.