Inventor · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Datong Chen

43Patents
17h-index
49Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Mar 15, 1994 → May 13, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5880495A Active pixel with a pinned photodiode Electricity 124 Expired
US5439833A Method of making truly complementary and self-aligned bipolar and CMOS transistor structures with minimized base and gate resistances and parasitic capacitance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 66 Expired
US6365447B1 High-voltage complementary bipolar and BiCMOS technology using double expitaxial growth Electricity 65 Expired
US5960131A Switching element having an expanding waveguide core Physics 64 Expired
US6128039A Column amplifier for high fixed pattern noise reduction Electricity 56 Expired
US6055344A Fabrication of a total internal reflection optical switch with vertical fluid fill-holes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 43 Expired
US6324316A Fabrication of a total internal reflection optical switch with vertical fluid fill-holes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US5411913A Simple planarized trench isolation and field oxide formation using poly-silicon Electricity 34 Expired
US6727946B1 APS soft reset circuit for reducing image lag Electricity 33 Expired
US5385861A Planarized trench and field oxide and poly isolation scheme Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US6339248B1 Optimized floating P+ region photodiode for a CMOS image sensor Electricity 27 Expired
US5683932A Method of fabricating a planarized trench and field oxide isolation structure Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 26 Expired
US6121817A Analog median filter circuit for image processing Electricity 26 Expired
US6486521B2 Optimized floating P+ region photodiode for a CMOS image sensor Electricity 21 Expired
US5901257A Single chip color MOS image sensor with two line reading structure and improved color filter pattern Electricity 21 Expired
US5827762A Method for forming buried interconnect structue having stability at high temperatures Electricity 18 Expired
US5691232A Planarized trench and field oxide isolation scheme Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 18 Expired
US5681776A Planar selective field oxide isolation process using SEG/ELO Electricity 16 Expired
US5751189A Charge amplifier for MOS imaging array and method of making same Electricity 16 Expired
US6580849B2 Optical switch incorporating stepped faceted mirrors Physics 15 Expired
US6917739B2 Optical cache memory Electricity 13 Expired
US6289139A Single chip color CMOS image sensor with two or more line reading structure Electricity 12 Expired
US6035077A Single-chip color CMOS image sensor with two or more line reading structure and high-sensitivity interlace color structure Electricity 11 Expired
US6404460B1 Edge enhancement with background noise reduction in video image processing Electricity 10 Expired
US5724095A Charge amplifier for MOS imaging array and method of making same Electricity 8 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.