Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090009868 | DIFFRACTION GRATING RECORDING MEDIUM - A diffraction grating recording medium including a waveguide layer and a grating structure layer is provided. The waveguide layer has a reflective surface and a light incident surface, in which a thickness of the waveguide layer is between 100 nanometers and 2 micrometers, and the reflective surface reflects a light that enters the waveguide layer from the light incident layer. The grating structure layer is disposed on the light incident surface of the waveguide layer, in which the grating structure layer has a plurality of diffractive elements, and the arranging period of the diffractive elements is between 50 nanometers and 900 nanometers. | 01-08-2009 |
20140184863 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING PIXEL INFORMATION OF COLOR PIXELS ON A COLOR FILTER ARRAY OF AN IMAGE SENSOR - A method for correcting pixel information of color pixels on a color filter array of an image sensor includes: establishing an M×M distance factor table, selecting M×M pixels of the color filter array, calculating a red/green/blue-color contribution from the red/green/blue pixels to a target pixel in the selected M×M pixels, calculating a red/blue/green-color pixel performance of the target pixel, calculating a red/blue/green-color correcting factor, obtaining a corrected pixel information of each of the red/green/blue pixels, by applying the red/green/blue-color correcting factor to the measured pixel information of each of the red/green/blue pixels. | 07-03-2014 |
20140264686 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICES - A solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate containing a plurality of image sensors. A color filter including a plurality of color filter segments is disposed above the semiconductor substrate. Each of the color filter segments corresponds to one of the image sensors. Further, a plurality of partitions is disposed between the color filter segments. Each of the partitions is disposed between any two adjacent color filter segments. The partition has a height smaller than the height of the color filter segment, wherein the height of the partition is based on the bottom of the color filter segment to the top of the partition, and the height of the color filter segment is based on the bottom of the color filter segment to the top of the color filter segment. | 09-18-2014 |
20140339606 | BSI CMOS IMAGE SENSOR - A back surface illuminated image sensor is provided. The back surface illuminated image sensor includes: a first passivation layer disposed on the photodiode array; an oxide grid disposed on the first passivation layer and forming a plurality of holes exposing the first passivation layer; a color filter array including a plurality of color filters filled into the holes, wherein the oxide grid has a refractive index smaller than that of plurality of color filters; and a metal grid aligned to the oxide grid, wherein the metal grid has an extinction coefficient greater than zero. | 11-20-2014 |
20140339615 | BSI CMOS IMAGE SENSOR - A back surface illuminated image sensor is provided. The back surface illuminated image sensor includes: a first passivation layer disposed on the photodiode array; an oxide grid disposed on the first passivation layer and forming a plurality of holes exposing the first passivation layer; a color filter array including a plurality of color filters filled into the holes, wherein the oxide grid has a refractive index smaller than that of plurality of color filters; and a metal grid aligned to the oxide grid, wherein the metal grid has an extinction coefficient greater than zero. | 11-20-2014 |
20140362250 | METHOD FOR CORRECTING PIXEL INFORMATION OF COLOR PIXELS ON A COLOR FILTER ARRAY OF AN IMAGE SENSOR - A method for correcting pixel information of color pixels on a color filter array of an image sensor includes: establishing an M×M distance factor table, selecting M×M pixels of the color filter array, calculating a red/green/blue-color contribution from the red/green/blue pixels to a target pixel in the selected M×M pixels, calculating a red/blue/green-color pixel performance of the target pixel, calculating a red/blue/green-color correcting factor, obtaining a corrected pixel information of each of the red/green/blue pixels, by applying the red/green/blue-color correcting factor to the measured pixel information of each of the red/green/blue pixels. | 12-11-2014 |
20150270298 | SOLID-STATE IMAGING DEVICES AND METHODS OF FABRICATING THE SAME - Solid-state imaging devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a substrate containing a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element. A color filter layer has a first color filter component and a second color filter component respectively disposed above the first and second photoelectric conversion elements. A light-shielding partition is disposed between the first and second color filter components. The light-shielding partition has a height lower than that of the first and second color filter components. A buffer layer is disposed between the first and second color filter components and above the light-shielding partition. The buffer layer has a refractive index lower than that of the color filter layer. | 09-24-2015 |
20150325612 | IMAGE SENSING DEVICE - An image sensing device includes: a semiconductor substrate with a photo-sensing element; a passive layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate, having a first refractive index; a color pattern disposed over the passive layer, wherein the color pattern aligns to the photo-sensing element and has a color selected from the group consisting of red (R), green (G), blue (B), and white (W), and a second refractive index; and an electromagnetic wave guiding element disposed in at least one of the color pattern and the passive layer, having a third refractive index, and the third refractive index is greater than the first refractive index or the second refractive index, and a first difference between the third refractive index and the first refractive index is at least 0.2, and a second difference between the third refractive index and the second refractive index is at least 0.2. | 11-12-2015 |