Patents by Inventor Mitsugu Yoshita

Mitsugu Yoshita 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).

  • Patent number: 11276719
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an imager including pixels arranged in rows and columns; vertical transfer portions in one-to-one correspondence with columns of the pixels, each of which includes a readout electrode that reads out signal charges generated in the pixels and a transfer electrode that transfers the read-out signal charges in the column direction; and a horizontal transfer portion which transfers, in the row direction, the signal charges transferred by the vertical transfer portions, and outputs the signal charges. The imager is formed by alternately disposing, in the column direction, a first row in which visible light pixels each including a first photoelectric converter that converts visible light into signal charges are arranged adjacent in the row direction and a second row in which infrared light pixels each including a second photoelectric converter that converts infrared light into signal charges are arranged adjacent in the row direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN
    Inventors: Takashi Kuwahara, Junichi Matsuo, Mitsugu Yoshita
  • Publication number: 20190280030
    Abstract: A solid-state imaging device includes: an imager including pixels arranged in rows and columns; vertical transfer portions in one-to-one correspondence with columns of the pixels, each of which includes a readout electrode that reads out signal charges generated in the pixels and a transfer electrode that transfers the read-out signal charges in the column direction; and a horizontal transfer portion which transfers, in the row direction, the signal charges transferred by the vertical transfer portions, and outputs the signal charges. The imager is formed by alternately disposing, in the column direction, a first row in which visible light pixels each including a first photoelectric converter that converts visible light into signal charges are arranged adjacent in the row direction and a second row in which infrared light pixels each including a second photoelectric converter that converts infrared light into signal charges are arranged adjacent in the row direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Takashi KUWAHARA, Junichi MATSUO, Mitsugu YOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20060019423
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a solid-state image sensor including forming a photodetector portion for a photoelectric conversion in a semiconductor substrate, and forming a shift register for transferring a signal charge read out from the photodetector portion, an annealing is carried out after an ion implantation for forming a buried channel region constituting the shift register. It is possible to provide a method for manufacturing a solid-state image sensor that avoids the formation of crystal defects in a shift register and a photodetector portion and achieves an excellent output image quality and a large saturation electric charge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Suzuki, Mitsugu Yoshita