H04N 25/78
Readout circuits for addressed sensors
Official title: Readout circuits for addressed sensors, e.g. output amplifiers or A/D converters
H04N25/78 (Readout circuits for addressed sensors) appears on 6,859 US grants and 7,548 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 6,859
- Published applications
- 7,548
- Assignees
- 776
- Inventors
- 5,532
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 402 | 350 |
| 2026 | 263 | 269 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Hybrid imaging sensor with shared readout6 Oct 2026US 12,756,954 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Integration of a device on a read-out matrix8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313246 A1
- Image sensor including pixel circuit, method of operating image sensor, and electronic device including image sensor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313247 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Photodetection element and electronic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313254 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Globally synchronous locally asynchronous event based image sensor readout8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313255 A1
- Image sensing device and imaging system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313260 A1SK hynix Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- CMOS active pixel sensor type imaging system on a chip647US 5,841,126 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1998
- Active pixel sensor having intra-pixel charge transfer with analog-to-digital converter481US 6,665,013 B1California Institute of Technology · 2003
- Capacitively coupled successive approximation ultra low power analog-to-digital converter270US 5,880,691 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1999
- Correlated double sampling with up/down counter244US 5,877,715 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1999
- Apparatus and method for reading data from an image detector227US 4,996,413 AGeneral Electric Company · 1991