Patents by Inventor Michiel Timmermans
Michiel Timmermans has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11955494Abstract: An imaging device includes a first pixel including a first photoelectric conversion region and a first amplification transistor, a second pixel adjacent the first pixel and including a second photoelectric conversion region and a second amplification transistor, and a first contact coupled to the first amplification transistor and the second amplification transistor, and that receives a power supply signal for the first amplification transistor and the second amplification transistor.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Adarsh Basavalingappa, Taisuke Suwa, Michiel Timmermans, Frederick Brady, Jeongsoo Han
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Patent number: 11726207Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to accumulate, in a multiphase exposure, multiple sub-exposures with same phase data in an associated phase memory.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Alper Ercan, Michiel Timmermans, Ward Van Der Tempel
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Publication number: 20220254821Abstract: An imaging device includes a first pixel #1 including a first photoelectric conversion region and a first amplification transistor AMPO, a second pixel #2 adjacent the first pixel #1 and including a second photoelectric conversion region and a second amplification transistor AMP1, and a first contact C1 coupled to the first amplification transistor AMPO and the second amplification transistor AMP1, and that receives a power supply signal VDD for the first amplification transistor and the second amplification transistor. That is, neighboring pixels in a same row share a VDD contact. A wiring may connect the VDD nodes of amplification transistors AMP for an entire row of pixels. Reset transistors RSTO and RST1, and overflow transistors OFG of each pixel #1 and #2 may be connected to a same power supply. This power supply may be the same or different from the power supply VDD.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Adarsh BASAVALINGAPPA, Taisuke SUWA, Michiel TIMMERMANS, Frederick BRADY, Jeongsoo HAN
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Publication number: 20220247952Abstract: A pixel array includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion region that converts incident light into electric charge, and a charge transfer section coupled to the photoelectric conversion region and having line symmetry along a first axis in a plan view. The charge transfer section includes a first transfer transistor coupled to a first floating diffusion and the photoelectric conversion region and located at a first side of the photoelectric conversion region, and a second transfer transistor coupled to a second floating diffusion and the photoelectric conversion region and located at the first side of the photoelectric conversion region.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Frederick BRADY, Adarsh BASAVALINGAPPA, Taisuke SUWA, Michiel TIMMERMANS, Sungin HWANG
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Publication number: 20220214433Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a time-of-flight device with a light detection portion including at least one photo conversion portion and a first biasing voltage portion and a second biasing voltage portion adjacent to the at least one photo conversion portion for generating an electric field across the at least one photo conversion portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventor: Michiel Timmermans
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Publication number: 20220216253Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion region, a first transfer transistor coupled to the photoelectric conversion region, a first floating diffusion, a second floating diffusion, a second transfer transistor coupled between the first floating diffusion and the second floating diffusion to control access to the second floating diffusion, a third transfer transistor coupled to the photoelectric conversion region, a third floating diffusion coupled, a fourth floating diffusion, and a fourth transfer transistor coupled between the third floating diffusion and the fourth floating diffusion to control access to the fourth floating diffusion. The imaging device includes a first wiring layer including a first wiring connected to the second floating diffusion, a second wiring connected to the fourth floating diffusion, and a third wiring connected to ground and capacitively coupled with the first wiring and the second wiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Frederick BRADY, Adarsh BASAVALINGAPPA, Taisuke SUWA, Michiel TIMMERMANS, Sungin HWANG
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Publication number: 20220217289Abstract: An imaging device includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion region, and first and second transistors coupled to the first photoelectric conversion region to transfer charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion region. The imaging device includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit to drive the first pixel in a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which the first driving circuit applies a first set of transfer signals to the first and second transfer transistors, the second mode being a mode in which the second driving circuit applies a transfer signal to only one of the first and second transfer transistors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Sungin HWANG, Frederick BRADY, Adarsh BASAVALINGAPPA, Taisuke SUWA, Michiel TIMMERMANS
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Publication number: 20220179087Abstract: A time-of-flight apparatus has a light source for emitting a light pulse to a scene; a photo-detection portion for detecting at least the light pulse reflected from the scene within a first photo-detection time interval, wherein the photo-detection portion includes at least one photo-detection element; and a measurement circuitry configured to: drive, within a measurement time interval including the first photo-detection time interval, the at least one photo-detection element for detecting the light pulse reflected from the scene, and drain, within the measurement time interval and after the first photo-detection time interval, electrons from the at least one photo-detection element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Rachit Mohan, Ward Van Der Tempel, Michiel Timmermans, Ye Chen, Qing Ding
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Publication number: 20210157005Abstract: An electronic device comprising circuitry configured to accumulate, in a multiphase exposure, multiple sub-exposures with same phase data in an associated phase memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: May 27, 2021Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions CorporationInventors: Alper Ercan, Michiel Timmermans, Ward Van Der Tempel