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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:
Oct. 03, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2015
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SK Hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 27/14627 (2013.01); H01L 27/1462 (2013.01); H01L 27/14605 (2013.01); H01L 27/14621 (2013.01); H01L 27/14625 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01);
Abstract
This technology provides an image sensor and an electronic device including the same. In an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, each of the plurality of unit pixels may include a photoelectric conversion element and a pixel lens over the photoelectric conversion element and comprising a plurality of light condensing layers in which a lower layer has a larger area than an upper layer, wherein the pixel lens has a shape changing based on a position of a corresponding unit pixel from a center of the pixel array to an edge of the pixel array.