Arrayed imaging systems having improved alignment and associated methods

US9418193B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• OmniVision Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Edward R. Dowski, Jr. · Lafayette, US
• Paulo E.X. Silvieri · Boulder, US
• George C. Barnes, IV · Westminster, US
• Vladislav V. Chumachenko · Louisville, US
• Dennis W. Dobbs · Boulder, US
• Regis Fan · Shanghai, CN
• Gregory E. Johnson · Boulder, US
• Miodrag Scepanovic · San Jose, US
• Satoru Tachihara · Tokyo, JP
• Christopher J. Linnen · Erie, US
• Inga Tamayo · Erie, US
• Donald Combs · Auburn, US
• Howard E. Rhodes · Boise, US
• James He · San Jose, US
• John J. Mader · Boston, US
• Kenneth Kubala · Boulder, US
• Mark Meloni · Longmont, US
• Brian Schwartz · Woodbridge, US
• Robert H. Cormack · Boulder, US
• Michael Hepp · San Jose, US
• Gary L. Duerksen · Ward, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 2013
• Grant date: Aug 16, 2016
• Expiry date: Jan 1, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01L2924/0002
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Arrayed imaging systems include an array of detectors formed with a common base and a first array of layered optical elements, each one of the layered optical elements being optically connected with a detector in the array of detectors.