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US 10,834,343 B2Granted
Image sensor including color splitting element and method of operating the image sensor
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSunghyun Nam, Sookyoung Roh, Seokho Yun
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Abstract
An image sensor including a color splitting element and a method of operating the image sensor are provided. The image sensor may include a plurality of unit pixels, and each pixel of the plurality of unit pixels may include a plurality of color sub-pixels. At least one color sub-pixel of the plurality of color sub-pixels may include a color splitting element that has a first refractive index greater than a second refractive index of a material that surrounds the first color splitting element.
Claims11
An image sensor comprising:
- a plurality of clear sub-pixel rows comprising a plurality of clear sub-pixels;
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- a plurality of color sub-pixel rows that comprise a plurality of color sub-pixels, and are disposed alternately with the plurality of clear sub-pixels rows,
- wherein the plurality of color sub-pixels comprise first color sub-pixels and second color sub-pixels that are alternately disposed with each other, and each of the first color sub-pixels comprises a first color splitting element.
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An image sensor comprising:
- a plurality of unit pixels,
- wherein each of the plurality of unit pixels comprises two color sub-pixels and two clear sub-pixels, and
- wherein only one of the two color sub-pixels comprises a first color splitting element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.