H04N 25/17
Colour separation based on photon absorption depth
Official title: Colour separation based on photon absorption depth, e.g. full colour resolution obtained simultaneously at each pixel location
H04N25/17 (Colour separation based on photon absorption depth) appears on 257 US grants and 281 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 257
- Published applications
- 281
- Assignees
- 80
- Inventors
- 388
- Latest grant
- 8 Sep 2026
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| 2006 | 5 | 18 |
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| 2024 | 11 | 12 |
| 2025 | 11 | 3 |
| 2026 | 7 | 5 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Vertically stacked type image sensors and electronic devices including the same8 Sep 2026US 12,732,721 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Imaging element, electronic apparatus, and method of driving imaging element14 Jul 2026US RE50,954 E1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Solid-state imaging device and recognition system having multiple pixels stacked in the vertical direction16 Jun 2026US 12,660,344 B2Sony Group Corporation
- White-infra-red image sensor having unit pixel with vertically stacked arrangement of photoelectric conversion regions28 Apr 2026US 12,615,448 B2Himax Imaging Limited
- Image sensor including imaging pixels and autofocusing pixels and electronic apparatus including the image sensor14 Apr 2026US 12,604,109 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Light detecting device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0282641 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Color correction method for filter-less pixels4 Jun 2026US 2026/0156371 A1OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Image sensor and electronic device including the same2 Apr 2026US 2026/0095679 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Solid-state imaging device22 Jan 2026US 2026/0026115 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Image sensor with stacked color filters or multi-state tunable color filter1 Jan 2026US 2026/0006344 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Color separation in an active pixel cell imaging array using a triple-well structure607US 5,965,875 AFoveon, Inc. · 1999
- Real-time CMOS imager having stacked photodiodes fabricated on SOI wafer267US 7,419,844 B2Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2008
- Use of a lenslet array with a vertically stacked pixel array247US 6,958,862 B1Foveon, Inc. · 2005
- CMOS active pixel sensor222US 7,800,148 B2Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc. · 2010
- Materials, systems and methods for optoelectronic devices107US 7,923,801 B2InVisage Technologies, Inc. · 2011