GB2007937B - Solid state image sensors - Google Patents

Solid state image sensors

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Publication number
GB2007937B
GB2007937B GB7838523A GB7838523A GB2007937B GB 2007937 B GB2007937 B GB 2007937B GB 7838523 A GB7838523 A GB 7838523A GB 7838523 A GB7838523 A GB 7838523A GB 2007937 B GB2007937 B GB 2007937B
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solid state
state image
image sensors
sensors
solid
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Sony Corp
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Sony Corp
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01J—ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS
    • H01J29/00—Details of cathode-ray tubes or of electron-beam tubes of the types covered by group H01J31/00
    • H01J29/02—Electrodes; Screens; Mounting, supporting, spacing or insulating thereof
    • H01J29/10—Screens on or from which an image or pattern is formed, picked up, converted or stored
    • H01J29/36—Photoelectric screens; Charge-storage screens
    • H01J29/39—Charge-storage screens
    • H01J29/45—Charge-storage screens exhibiting internal electric effects caused by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. photoconductive screen, photodielectric screen, photovoltaic screen
    • H01J29/451—Charge-storage screens exhibiting internal electric effects caused by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. photoconductive screen, photodielectric screen, photovoltaic screen with photosensitive junctions
    • H01J29/453—Charge-storage screens exhibiting internal electric effects caused by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. photoconductive screen, photodielectric screen, photovoltaic screen with photosensitive junctions provided with diode arrays
    • H01J29/455—Charge-storage screens exhibiting internal electric effects caused by electromagnetic radiation, e.g. photoconductive screen, photodielectric screen, photovoltaic screen with photosensitive junctions provided with diode arrays formed on a silicon substrate
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/148—Charge coupled imagers
    • H01L27/14831—Area CCD imagers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01L—SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES NOT COVERED BY CLASS H10
    • H01L27/00—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate
    • H01L27/14—Devices consisting of a plurality of semiconductor or other solid-state components formed in or on a common substrate including semiconductor components sensitive to infrared radiation, light, electromagnetic radiation of shorter wavelength or corpuscular radiation and specially adapted either for the conversion of the energy of such radiation into electrical energy or for the control of electrical energy by such radiation
    • H01L27/144—Devices controlled by radiation
    • H01L27/146—Imager structures
    • H01L27/148—Charge coupled imagers
    • H01L27/14887—Blooming suppression
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/50—Control of the SSIS exposure
    • H04N25/57—Control of the dynamic range
    • H04N25/571—Control of the dynamic range involving a non-linear response
    • H04N25/575—Control of the dynamic range involving a non-linear response with a response composed of multiple slopes
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/71—Charge-coupled device [CCD] sensors; Charge-transfer registers specially adapted for CCD sensors
    • H04N25/73—Charge-coupled device [CCD] sensors; Charge-transfer registers specially adapted for CCD sensors using interline transfer [IT]
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/70—SSIS architectures; Circuits associated therewith
    • H04N25/76—Addressed sensors, e.g. MOS or CMOS sensors
    • H04N25/77—Pixel circuitry, e.g. memories, A/D converters, pixel amplifiers, shared circuits or shared components

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Power Engineering (AREA)
  • Multimedia (AREA)
  • Signal Processing (AREA)
  • Electromagnetism (AREA)
  • Condensed Matter Physics & Semiconductors (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Computer Hardware Design (AREA)
  • Microelectronics & Electronic Packaging (AREA)
  • Nonlinear Science (AREA)
  • Transforming Light Signals Into Electric Signals (AREA)
  • Solid State Image Pick-Up Elements (AREA)
  • Picture Signal Circuits (AREA)
GB7838523A 1977-09-29 1978-09-28 Solid state image sensors Expired GB2007937B (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
JP12688577A JPS5451318A (en) 1977-09-29 1977-09-29 Solid pickup unit

Publications (2)

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GB2007937A GB2007937A (en) 1979-05-23
GB2007937B true GB2007937B (en) 1982-03-03

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JP (1) JPS5451318A (en)
CA (1) CA1125421A (en)
DE (1) DE2842346C2 (en)
FR (1) FR2409646A1 (en)
GB (1) GB2007937B (en)
NL (1) NL7809866A (en)

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JPS56136086A (en) * 1980-03-27 1981-10-23 Fujitsu Ltd Two-dimensional image pickup device
JPS56160081A (en) * 1980-05-14 1981-12-09 Matsushita Electronics Corp Solid state image pickup apparatus
EP0065599B1 (en) * 1981-05-19 1986-01-29 Texas Instruments Incorporated Infrared imaging system with infrared detector matrix, and method of imaging infrared energy
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JPS586682A (en) * 1981-07-06 1983-01-14 Sony Corp Solid-state image pickup device
JPS5847378A (en) * 1981-09-17 1983-03-19 Canon Inc Image pickup element
JPS58142570A (en) * 1982-02-19 1983-08-24 Sony Corp Solid-state image pickup device
JPS60254770A (en) * 1984-05-31 1985-12-16 Fujitsu Ltd Charge transfer device
JPS61144874A (en) * 1984-12-19 1986-07-02 Toshiba Corp Charge transfer device
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JPH02113678A (en) * 1988-10-21 1990-04-25 Nec Corp Solid state image pickup device
US5055667A (en) * 1990-06-21 1991-10-08 Loral Fairchild Corporation Non-linear photosite response in CCD imagers
US5276520A (en) * 1991-06-07 1994-01-04 Eastman Kodak Company Enhancing exposure latitude of image sensors
FR2687265A1 (en) * 1993-01-08 1993-08-13 Scanera Sc Electronic image acquisition device with very high dynamic range, and method of acquiring images of very highly contrasted scenes

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JPS5846905B2 (en) * 1975-11-10 1983-10-19 ソニー株式会社 Kotai Satsuzou Sochi
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DE2842346A1 (en) 1979-04-12
FR2409646B1 (en) 1983-11-18
GB2007937A (en) 1979-05-23
JPS5451318A (en) 1979-04-23
NL7809866A (en) 1979-04-02
FR2409646A1 (en) 1979-06-15
DE2842346C2 (en) 1987-05-14
CA1125421A (en) 1982-06-08

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