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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2009
Applicants:
Kazuya Mori, Tsukuba, JP;
Toshiyuki Ishiuchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Inventors:
Kazuya Mori, Tsukuba, JP;
Toshiyuki Ishiuchi, Tsukuba, JP;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus generally comprises an array and storage elements. The array includes photosensitive cells that are arranged in a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows such that each column includes a set of photosensitive cell pairs that have a shared region with a share floating diffusion region and a shared selection transistor. Also, the location of each shared region of each column is shifted by one row in each adjacent column.