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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2022
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Manuel H. Innocent, Wezemaal, BE;
Tomas Geurts, Haasrode, BE;
Genis Chapinal Gomez, Antwerp, BE;
Tze Ching Fung, Fremont, CA (US);
Bartosz Piotr Banachowicz, San Jose, CA (US);
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
An image sensor may include an array of image pixels. The array of image pixel may be coupled to row control circuitry and column readout circuitry. An image pixel in the array may include a charge integration portion having a photodiode, a floating diffusion region, and a capacitor coupled to the floating diffusion region and may include a voltage-domain sampling portion having three capacitors. High light and low light image level and reset level signals may be sampled and stored at the voltage-domain sampling portion before being readout to the column readout circuitry during a readout operation. The high light reset level signal may be sampled and stored during the readout operation.