US Patent Application 18034233. IMAGING DEVICE simplified abstract
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IMAGING DEVICE
Organization Name
SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
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IMAGING DEVICE - A simplified explanation of the abstract
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18034233 titled 'IMAGING DEVICE
Simplified Explanation
The patent application describes an imaging device with a semiconductor substrate that has pixels arranged in a matrix.
- The semiconductor substrate includes photoelectric conversion sections that generate electric charge based on the amount of light received for each pixel.
- Each pixel has a first lens and each photoelectric conversion section has a second lens between the substrate and the first lens.
- A first separation section is provided between adjacent photoelectric conversion sections to optically separate them.
- A second separation section is provided between adjacent pixels to optically separate them and protrudes further than the first separation section in the direction of light incident.
Original Abstract Submitted
An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a semiconductor substrate which has a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other, and in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix, the semiconductor substrate including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections that each generate electric charge corresponding to a light receiving amount by photoelectric conversion for each pixel; a first lens disposed for each pixel; a second lens disposed between the semiconductor substrate and the first lens for each photoelectric conversion section; a first separation section provided between adjacent photoelectric conversion sections in each pixel and optically separating the adjacent photoelectric conversion sections from each other; and a second separation section provided between adjacent pixels, optically separating the adjacent pixels from each other, and protruding farther than the first separation section in a light incident direction.
