US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 13 for "Readout architectures for dark current reduction in indirect time-of-flight sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,549, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Readout architectures for dark current reduction in indirect time-of-flight sensors" was invented by Andreas Suess (San Jose, Calif.) and Zheng Yang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit includes a photodiode configured to photogenerate charge in response to reflected modulated light incident upon the photodiode. A first floating diffusion is configured to store a first portion of charge photogenerated in the photodiode. A first transfer transistor is configured to transfer the first portion of charge from the photo...