H10F 39/18
Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor [cmos] image sensors
Official title: Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor [CMOS] image sensors; Photodiode array image sensors
H10F39/18 (Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor [cmos] image sensors) appears on 12,659 US grants and 14,470 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
- 12,659
- Published applications
- 14,470
- Assignees
- 1,677
- Inventors
- 12,904
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2001 | 96 | 57 |
| 2002 | 109 | 156 |
| 2003 | 153 | 168 |
| 2004 | 141 | 241 |
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| 2022 | 700 | 932 |
| 2023 | 673 | 883 |
| 2024 | 677 | 779 |
| 2025 | 647 | 662 |
| 2026 | 426 | 388 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Hybrid imaging sensor with shared readout6 Oct 2026US 12,756,954 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- 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.
- Image sensing pixel configurations for reduced dark current noise6 Oct 2026US 12,757,505 B2Microsoft Technology Licesning, LLC
- Image sensing device having a cross-talk sensing pixel group6 Oct 2026US 12,757,507 B2SK hynix 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