Inventor · San Ramon, CA, US

Yaowu Mo

40Patents
8h-index
34Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 31, 2007 → Dec 28, 2023

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US10397500B1 Wide dynamic range image sensor pixel cell Electricity 66 Active
US7746400B2 Method, apparatus, and system providing multi-column shared readout for imagers Electricity 17 Active
US10250832B1 Stacked rolling shutter and global shutter image sensor with knee self point calibration Electricity 12 Active
US8405747B2 Analog row black level calibration for CMOS image sensor Electricity 12 Active
US10334189B1 HDR pixel array with double diagonal binning Electricity 11 Active
US10670526B2 DNA sequencing system with stacked BSI global shutter image sensor Physics 10 Active
US8809759B2 Multiple-row concurrent readout scheme for high-speed CMOS image sensor with backside illumination Electricity 10 Active
US8599284B2 High dynamic range sub-sampling architecture Electricity 9 Active
US8730364B2 Image sensor with pipelined column analog-to-digital converters Electricity 8 Active
US8508629B2 Analog row black level calibration for CMOS image sensor Electricity 6 Active
US8576979B2 Arithmetic counter circuit, configuration and application for high performance CMOS image sensors Electricity 6 Active
US8368789B2 Systems and methods to provide reference current with negative temperature coefficient Physics 6 Active
US8643750B2 Reducing noise in image sensors by concurrently reading reset and image signal levels from active and reference pixels Electricity 6 Active
US10002901B1 Stacked image sensor with embedded FPGA and pixel cell with selectable shutter modes and in-pixel CDs Electricity 5 Active
US10070081B2 Stacked image sensor pixel cell with dynamic range enhancement and selectable shutter modes and in-pixel CDS Electricity 4 Active
US8102451B2 VLN biasing scheme to achieve low vertical shading for high-speed and large-format CMOS image sensors with top/bottom readout scheme Electricity 4 Active
US8324548B2 Imaging devices and methods for charge transfer Electricity 4 Active
US9991298B1 Stacked image sensor pixel cell with a charge amplifier and selectable shutter modes and in-pixel CDS Electricity 4 Active
US8390712B2 Image sensing pixels with feedback loops for imaging systems Electricity 4 Active
US10250828B1 Global shutter image sensor with anti-blooming pixel and knee point self-calibration Electricity 4 Active
US8089532B2 Method and apparatus providing pixel-wise noise correction Electricity 3 Active
US7924330B2 Methods and apparatuses for double sided dark reference pixel row-wise dark level non-uniformity compensation in image signals Electricity 3 Active
US8466991B2 Optical black pixel cell readout systems and methods Electricity 3 Active
US8077227B2 Method and apparatus providing analog row noise correction and hot pixel filtering Electricity 2 Active
US9571763B2 Split pixel high dynamic range sensor Electricity 2 Active

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