Integrated circuit optics assembly unit

US6534796B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Pictos Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Magued Bishay · Brooks Road, US
• Randall M. Chung · Laguna Niguel, US
• James K. Dawson · Tecate Mission Road, US
• David Escobar · San Juan Capistrano, US
• Mike Fukatsu · La Mirada, US
• Edward Andrew Jakl · Tustin, US
• Sarit Neter · Irvine, US
• Ian Olsen · Newport Beach, US
• Gregory A. Urban · Red Bluff, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Sep 29, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H10F77/50

Abstract

A semiconductor component that receives incoming light includes an integrated circuit, a package and an optics unit. The optics unit may provide a pathway, either generally or selectively, for the incoming light to the photodetector circuitry of the integrated circuit and may modify the incoming light, as well. The optics unit may be either electrically active or passive. When active, the optics unit is coupled to the integrated circuit with a conductor. The optics unit may also include a liquid crystal device, a beamsplitter assembly, a lensing assembly or other filters, and/or apertures. The liquid crystal device can act as a shutter or a display and the optics unit may be a single module or a plurality of modules. The integrated circuit may also include shutter drive circuitry and image processing circuitry.