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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Omnivision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gang Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Duli Mao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hsin-Chih Tai, San Jose, CA (US);

Howard E. Rhodes, Nokomis, FL (US);

Assignee:

OmniVision Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 33/12 (2010.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); G02B 1/10 (2015.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/201 (2013.01); G02B 1/105 (2013.01); H01L 27/1464 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/14685 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of an apparatus including a color filter arrangement formed on a substrate having a pixel array formed therein. The color filter arrangement includes a clear filter having a first clear hard mask layer and a second clear hard mask layer formed thereon, a first color filter having the first clear hard mask layer and the second hard mask layer formed thereon, a second color filter having the first clear hard mask layer formed thereon, and a third color filter having no clear hard mask layer formed thereon. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.


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