H10F 39/80
Constructional details of image sensors
Official title: {Constructional details of image sensors}
H10F39/80 (Constructional details of image sensors) appears on 23,387 US grants and 28,766 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H10F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 28,766
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- 2,522
- Inventors
- 22,140
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2004 | 299 | 486 |
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| 2021 | 1206 | 1737 |
| 2022 | 1206 | 1671 |
| 2023 | 1251 | 1545 |
| 2024 | 1293 | 1527 |
| 2025 | 1173 | 1307 |
| 2026 | 801 | 855 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H10F 39/806Optical elements or arrangements associated with the image sensors9,093
- H10F 39/805Coatings8,985
- H10F 39/803Pixels having integrated switching, control, storage or amplification elements8,854
- H10F 39/811Interconnections6,032
- H10F 39/802Geometry or disposition of elements in pixels5,785
- H10F 39/807Pixel isolation structures4,170
- H10F 39/804Containers or encapsulations3,613
- H10F 39/809Of hybrid image sensors3,047
Recent patents
- Organic substrate for placing components of a camera6 Oct 2026US 12,756,912 B1Apple Inc.
- 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
- Interconnect structure and method of forming same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0306859 A1Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.Ltd
- Image sensing device and imaging system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313260 A1SK hynix Inc.
- Photoelectric conversion apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313262 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Method of operating image sensor and image sensor performing the same8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313268 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Sensor manufacturing method and sensor8 Oct 2026US 2026/0314086 A1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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
- Color imaging array1,232US 3,971,065 AEastman Kodak Company · 1976
- Display855US 7,791,072 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha · 2010
- CMOS active pixel sensor type imaging system on a chip647US 5,841,126 ACalifornia Institute of Technology · 1998