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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:
May. 30, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Donghui Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ping-Hsu Chen, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/07 (2006.01); H04N 9/083 (2006.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/647 (2013.01); H01L 27/14609 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14623 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 9/07 (2013.01); H04N 9/735 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a color filter array include a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units, each minimal repeating unit comprising an M×N set of individual filters, and each individual filter in the set having a photoresponse selected from among four different photoresponses. Each minimal repeating unit includes a checkerboard pattern of filters of the first photoresponse, and filters of the second, third, and fourth photoresponses distributed among the checkerboard pattern such that the filters of the second, third, and fourth photoresponses are sequentially symmetric about one or both of a pair of orthogonal axes of the minimal repeating unit.


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