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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2001
Applicant:
Jeff Raynor, Edinburgh, GB;
Inventor:
Jeff Raynor, Edinburgh, GB;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics Ltd., Buckinghamshire, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L027/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A solid state image sensor includes an array of pixels and a corresponding array of microlenses. The positions of the microlenses relative to their corresponding pixels may vary according to the distances of the pixels from a central optical axis of the image sensor to substantially eliminate vignetting of light collected by the microlenses.