H10F 39/12
Image sensors
H10F39/12 (Image sensors) appears on 19,136 US grants and 20,515 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 19,136
- Published applications
- 20,515
- Assignees
- 2,211
- Inventors
- 18,309
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2001 | 176 | 110 |
| 2002 | 212 | 258 |
| 2003 | 246 | 266 |
| 2004 | 233 | 340 |
| 2005 | 219 | 458 |
| 2006 | 327 | 573 |
| 2007 | 342 | 555 |
| 2008 | 333 | 562 |
| 2009 | 420 | 595 |
| 2010 | 579 | 664 |
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| 2018 | 1006 | 1143 |
| 2019 | 1087 | 1252 |
| 2020 | 1138 | 1330 |
| 2021 | 993 | 1348 |
| 2022 | 1000 | 1323 |
| 2023 | 974 | 1239 |
| 2024 | 985 | 1231 |
| 2025 | 918 | 941 |
| 2026 | 578 | 541 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H10F 39/18Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor [cmos] image sensors12,659
- H10F 39/199Back-illuminated image sensors4,245
- H10F 39/15Charge-coupled device [ccd] image sensors2,663
- H10F 39/191Photoconductor image sensors1,899
- H10F 39/198Contact-type image sensors [cis]643
- H10F 39/197Bipolar transistor image sensors203
- H10F 39/196Junction field effect transistor [jfet] image sensors156
Recent patents
- Light detection element, electronic device, and manufacturing method of light detection element6 Oct 2026US 12,756,948 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Hybrid imaging sensor with shared readout6 Oct 2026US 12,756,954 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Low-power photonic demodulator6 Oct 2026US 12,757,502 B2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Multi-substrate image sensor device and method with metalens6 Oct 2026US 12,757,503 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Multiband focal plane array (FPA) enabled by the combination of microbolometer and colloidal quantum dot short wave infrared (SWIR) detectors on a single readout integrated circuit (ROIC)6 Oct 2026US 12,757,504 B2SWIR Vision Systems Inc.
- Architecture of an absorption zone for an infrared detector8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309549 A1
- Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313974 A1Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co.Ltd.
- Image sensor and electronic apparatus including the image sensor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314087 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Image sensor device and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314088 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Image sensing device and methods of manufacturing the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314089 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Sensor and image pickup device3,937US 7,453,065 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2008
- Active pixel sensor with intra-pixel charge transfer1,276US 5,471,515 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1995
- CMOS active pixel sensor type imaging system on a chip647US 5,841,126 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1998
- Color separation in an active pixel cell imaging array using a triple-well structure607US 5,965,875 AFoveon, Inc. · 1999
- Optical systems fabricated by printing-based assembly564US 7,972,875 B2The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · 2011