Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Sohei Manabe

68Patents
13h-index
58Co-inventors
87Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 26, 1984 → Mar 17, 2021

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7800192B2 Backside illuminated image sensor having deep light reflective trenches Electricity 92 Active
US8089036B2 Image sensor with global shutter and in pixel storage transistor Electricity 56 Active
US8817154B2 Image sensor with fixed potential output transistor Electricity 37 Active
US8017427B2 Backside-illuminated (BSI) image sensor with backside diffusion doping Electricity 34 Active
US4807037A Low noise CCD image sensor having a plurality of horizontal CCD registers Electricity 28 Expired
US9936153B1 CMOS image sensor with dual floating diffusions per pixel for flicker-free detection of light emitting diodes Electricity 23 Active
US4614891A Photoconductive target of image pickup tube Electricity 20 Expired
US9054007B2 Image sensor pixel cell with switched deep trench isolation structure Electricity 20 Active
US7209601B2 CMOS image sensor using high frame rate with frame addition and movement compensation Electricity 17 Expired
US8716768B2 Transistor with self-aligned channel width Electricity 17 Active
US10103193B1 Apparatus and method for low dark current floating diffusion Electricity 17 Active
US8228411B2 Circuit and photo sensor overlap for backside illumination image sensor Electricity 15 Active
US8357984B2 Image sensor with low electrical cross-talk Electricity 13 Active
US8294077B2 Image sensor having supplemental capacitive coupling node Electricity 13 Active
US10044960B2 Systems and methods for detecting light-emitting diode without flickering Electricity 12 Active
US8101978B2 Circuit and photo sensor overlap for backside illumination image sensor Electricity 12 Active
US10134788B2 Dual VPIN HDR image sensor pixel Electricity 10 Active
US7045754B2 Hybrid charge coupled CMOS image sensor having an amplification transistor controlled by a sense node Electricity 9 Expired
US8426796B2 Image sensor having supplemental capacitive coupling node Electricity 9 Active
US7825966B2 High dynamic range sensor with blooming drain Electricity 8 Active
US10741593B1 Vertical transfer gate storage for a global shutter in an image sensor Electricity 7 Active
US9496304B2 Image sensor pixel cell with switched deep trench isolation structure Electricity 7 Active
US9749569B2 High speed rolling image sensor with ADM architecture and method of implementing thereof Electricity 7 Active
US6974943B2 Active pixel cell using negative to positive voltage swing transfer transistor Electricity 7 Expired
US9967504B1 Imaging sensor with boosted photodiode drive Electricity 6 Active

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