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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:
Sep. 05, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2016
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Chen-Wei Lu, San Jose, CA (US);

Jin Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Yin Qian, Milpitas, CA (US);

Dyson H. Tai, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); G02B 5/20 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/045 (2013.01); G02B 5/201 (2013.01); H01L 27/1464 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01);
Abstract

A color filter array includes a plurality of tiled minimal repeating units, each minimal repeating unit comprising an M×N set of individual filters. Each minimal repeating unit includes a plurality of imaging filters including individual filters having at least first, second, and third photoresponses, and at least one reference filter having a reference photoresponse, wherein the reference filter is positioned among the imaging filters and wherein the reference photoresponse transmits substantially the same percentage of wavelengths that remain unfiltered by filters of a different photoresponse than the incident wavelength. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.


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