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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, ID (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 5/3745 (2011.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/3745 (2013.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01); H01L 27/14641 (2013.01); H04N 5/3575 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing space and pixel circuit complexity by using a 4-way shared vertically aligned pixels in a same column. The at least four pixels in the pixel circuit share a reset transistor and a source follower transistor, can have a plurality of same colored pixels and a plurality of colors, but do not include a row select transistor.