US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on July 8 for "Split floating diffusion pixel layout design" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,741, issued on July 8, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Split floating diffusion pixel layout design" was invented by Sangjoo Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel array includes pixel circuits including a first pixel circuit having a first split floating diffusion receiving charge from first and third photodiodes through first and third transfer transistors, and a second split floating diffusion receiving the charge from second and fourth photodiodes through second and fourth transfer transistors. A first shared gate structure includes gates of first transfer transistors of ...