WO1992014265A3 - Charge-coupled device (ccd) image sensor - Google Patents

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WO1992014265A3
WO1992014265A3 PCT/US1992/000672 US9200672W WO9214265A3 WO 1992014265 A3 WO1992014265 A3 WO 1992014265A3 US 9200672 W US9200672 W US 9200672W WO 9214265 A3 WO9214265 A3 WO 9214265A3
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Eric Gordon Stevens
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    • 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
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    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N25/00—Circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS]; Control thereof
    • H04N25/40—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled
    • H04N25/42—Extracting pixel data from image sensors by controlling scanning circuits, e.g. by modifying the number of pixels sampled or to be sampled by switching between different modes of operation using different resolutions or aspect ratios, e.g. switching between interlaced and non-interlaced mode
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    • 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

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A charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor, which can be operated either in the interlace mode or in the non-interlace mode, includes in a substrate of a semiconductor material a plurality of photodetectors, such as photodiodes, arranged in an array of rows and columns. A separate CCD shift register in the substrate extends along each column of the photodetectors. First and second sets of conductive gates extend transversely across the CCD shift registers with each first gate extending across a portion of the photodetectors in each row and each of the second gates extending across the remaining portion of the photodetectors in each row. A transfer region extends across the substrate from a portion of each of the photodetectors to an adjacent CCD shift register. The transfer regions of alternate photodetectors in each column extends under the first gates of the photodetectors and the transfer regions of the other photodetectors in each column extends under the second gates of the respective photodetectors. To operate the CCD image sensor in an interlace mode, during the transfer stage the two sets of gates are pulsed alternately with a shift register read-out after each set of gates is pulsed to read-out one-half of a frame at a time. To operate the CCD image sensor in the non-interlace mode, during the transfer stage all of the gates are pulsed simultaneously to read-out the entire frame in a single scan.
PCT/US1992/000672 1991-02-08 1992-02-03 Charge-coupled device (ccd) image sensor WO1992014265A2 (en)

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