Patents by Inventor Orit SKORKA
Orit SKORKA 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: 11985431Abstract: An imaging system may include an electronic shutter. The electronic shutter may be positioned between an image sensor and a lens module or may be integrated as a package cover for the image sensor. The electronic shutter may selectively attenuate incident light that passes to the image sensor. To increase the dynamic range of the imaging system, the electronic shutter may have a first transparency while a first image is captured by the image sensor and a second, different transparency while a second image is captured by the image sensor. The first and second images are subsequently combined to form a single high dynamic range image. The electronic shutter may be controlled at a global level, at a sub-array level, or at a pixel level.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit Skorka, Radu Ispasoiu, Brian Anthony Vaartstra
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Patent number: 11917272Abstract: An imaging device may have an array of image pixels that includes red, green, blue, and infrared pixels. The imaging device may include a dual-band filter that allows transmission of light in the visible band and in the near-infrared band and may include color processing circuitry that produces a color image with marked infrared regions. The color processing circuitry may include a standard color processing pipeline with a color correction matrix that produces a tone-mapped standard red, green, and blue image and may include infrared marking circuitry. The infrared marking circuitry may include hue angle determination circuitry, cell means determination circuitry, and near-infrared determination circuitry that determine portions of the image with high infrared reflectance to be marked. The infrared-marked tone-mapped standard red, green, and blue image may be output to a machine vision system to identify objects in the imaged scene with high infrared reflection.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit Skorka, Paul James Kane, David Wayne Jasinski
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Publication number: 20220232156Abstract: An imaging system may include an electronic shutter. The electronic shutter may be positioned between an image sensor and a lens module or may be integrated as a package cover for the image sensor. The electronic shutter may selectively attenuate incident light that passes to the image sensor. To increase the dynamic range of the imaging system, the electronic shutter may have a first transparency while a first image is captured by the image sensor and a second, different transparency while a second image is captured by the image sensor. The first and second images are subsequently combined to form a single high dynamic range image. The electronic shutter may be controlled at a global level, at a sub-array level, or at a pixel level.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit SKORKA, Radu ISPASOIU, Brian Anthony VAARTSTRA
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Publication number: 20220132089Abstract: An imaging device may have an array of image pixels that includes red, green, blue, and infrared pixels. The imaging device may include a dual-band filter that allows transmission of light in the visible band and in the near-infrared band and may include color processing circuitry that produces a color image with marked infrared regions. The color processing circuitry may include a standard color processing pipeline with a color correction matrix that produces a tone-mapped standard red, green, and blue image and may include infrared marking circuitry. The infrared marking circuitry may include hue angle determination circuitry, cell means determination circuitry, and near-infrared determination circuitry that determine portions of the image with high infrared reflectance to be marked. The infrared-marked tone-mapped standard red, green, and blue image may be output to a machine vision system to identify objects in the imaged scene with high infrared reflection.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit SKORKA, Paul James KANE, David Wayne JASINSKI
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Patent number: 11036067Abstract: Imaging systems may include tunable polarization filters. A tunable polarization filter may be integrated directly into an image sensor package. For example, the tunable polarization filter may serve as cover glass for the image sensor package. Tunable polarization package glass may be incorporated into image sensor packages that have air gaps between the image sensor and the cover glass or that have transparent adhesive between the image sensor and the cover glass. The tunable polarization layer may be controlled at a global level, at a sub-array level, or at a pixel level. In some cases, the tunable polarization layer may be a tunable polarization filter. In this example, the direction of the polarization filter is tuned. In other cases, the tunable polarization layer may be a tunable polarization rotator. In this example, the tunable polarization layer selectively rotates the polarization of light that passes through the tunable polarization layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2019Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit Skorka, Brian Anthony Vaartstra, Radu Ispasoiu
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Publication number: 20210026164Abstract: Imaging systems may include tunable polarization filters. A tunable polarization filter may be integrated directly into an image sensor package. For example, the tunable polarization filter may serve as cover glass for the image sensor package. Tunable polarization package glass may be incorporated into image sensor packages that have air gaps between the image sensor and the cover glass or that have transparent adhesive between the image sensor and the cover glass. The tunable polarization layer may be controlled at a global level, at a sub-array level, or at a pixel level. In some cases, the tunable polarization layer may be a tunable polarization filter. In this example, the direction of the polarization filter is tuned. In other cases, the tunable polarization layer may be a tunable polarization rotator. In this example, the tunable polarization layer selectively rotates the polarization of light that passes through the tunable polarization layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit SKORKA, Brian Anthony VAARTSTRA, Radu ISPASOIU
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Patent number: 9854186Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and systems image sensors. The methods and systems may comprise selectively activating either high or low conversion gain mode for a predetermined number of rows by comparing pixel row data to predetermined threshold values prior to image signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Richard Scott Johnson, Orit Skorka
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Publication number: 20170230593Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and systems image sensors. The methods and systems may comprise selectively activating either high or low conversion gain mode for a predetermined number of rows by comparing pixel row data to predetermined threshold values prior to image signal processing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2016Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Richard Scott JOHNSON, Orit SKORKA
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Patent number: 9683890Abstract: An image sensor with an array of pixels is provided. In order to achieve high image quality, it may be desirable to improve well capacity of individual pixels within the array by forming deep photodiodes in a thick substrate. When forming the array of pixels, conductive contacts may be formed in a back surface of the substrate opposing ground contacts located on a front side of the substrate. A conductive grid layer may be formed over the conductive contacts. A color filter layer may be formed over the conductive grid layer that may include a barrier grid in which color filter material is deposited. The conductive grid layer and conductive contacts may be biased to a voltage to improve the strength of electric fields in the substrate. Conductive contacts will thereby improve charge collection and electrical isolation and prevent electrical crosstalk and blooming.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit Skorka, Salman Kabir
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Publication number: 20170003165Abstract: An image sensor with an array of pixels is provided. In order to achieve high image quality, it may be desirable to improve well capacity of individual pixels within the array by forming deep photodiodes in a thick substrate. When forming the array of pixels, conductive contacts may be formed in a back surface of the substrate opposing ground contacts located on a front side of the substrate. A conductive grid layer may be formed over the conductive contacts. A color filter layer may be formed over the conductive grid layer that may include a barrier grid in which color filter material is deposited. The conductive grid layer and conductive contacts may be biased to a voltage to improve the strength of electric fields in the substrate. Conductive contacts will thereby improve charge collection and electrical isolation and prevent electrical crosstalk and blooming.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLCInventors: Orit SKORKA, Salman KABIR