H10F 39/184
Infrared image sensors
Official title: {Infrared image sensors}
H10F39/184 (Infrared image sensors) appears on 1,605 US grants and 1,643 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2024 | 91 | 113 |
| 2025 | 88 | 83 |
| 2026 | 64 | 31 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- 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.
- Optoelecronic device with polarizing mask structure15 Sep 2026US 12,740,162 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Electronic device member and electronic devices15 Sep 2026US 12,740,177 B2TDK Corporation
- Semiconductor image-sensing structure having electro-optical modulator and image sensor device having the same11 Aug 2026US 12,707,743 B2Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- 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 device and method8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314088 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Image sensing device and photographing system including the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314096 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Semiconductor image-sensing structure8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314098 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
Most cited
By later US patents
- Integrated IR, visible and NIR sensor and methods of fabricating same325US 5,808,350 ARaytheon Company · 1998
- Grated landing area to eliminate sticking of micro-mechanical devices322US 5,665,997 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Digital cameras with direct luminance and chrominance detection208US 7,964,835 B2Protarius Filo AG, L.L.C. · 2011
- Infrared detector182US 5,914,488 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1999
- Integrated silicon vacuum micropackage for infrared devices149US 5,895,233 AHoneywell Inc. · 1999