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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2008
Todd J. Anderson, Fairport, NY (US);
John P. Mccarten, Penfield, NY (US);
Joseph R. Summa, Hilton, NY (US);
Cristian A. Tivarus, Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Compton, LeRoy, NY (US);
Todd J. Anderson, Fairport, NY (US);
John P. McCarten, Penfield, NY (US);
Joseph R. Summa, Hilton, NY (US);
Cristian A. Tivarus, Rochester, NY (US);
John T. Compton, LeRoy, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A CMOS image sensor or other type of image sensor comprises a sensor wafer and an underlying circuit wafer. The sensor wafer comprises a plurality of photosensitive elements arranged in respective positions of a two-dimensional array of positions in which a subset of the array positions do not include photosensitive elements but instead include diffusion regions each of which is shared by two or more of the photosensitive elements. The sensor wafer is interconnected with the circuit wafer utilizing a plurality of inter-wafer interconnects coupled to respective ones of the shared diffusion regions in respective ones of the array positions that do not include photosensitive elements. The image sensor may be implemented in a digital camera or other type of image capture device.