IMAGING SYSTEMS HAVING LENS SUBSTRATES WITH TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION MITIGATION STRUCTURES
Patent №
US 10,074,683
Granted
2018-09-11
Filed 2014
Owner
APTINA IMAGING CORPORATION
Lab
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AI components
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vision
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
14460119
Imaging systems may include camera modules that include multiple image sensor pixel arrays. A transparent lens substrate may be formed over the image pixel arrays. Lenses may be formed in the lens substrate such that each lens transmits light to a corresponding image sensor pixel array. Total internal reflection mitigation structures such as groove structures may be formed in one or more surfaces of the lens substrate between each of the lenses. The groove structures may include concentric ring shaped grooves in a surface of the lens substrate so that each lens is surrounded by a respective group of concentric ring shaped grooves. The groove structures may have a depth, angle, shape, and spacing that prevents total internal reflection of image light between the lenses so that high incident angle image light incident on a given pixel array is not captured by an adjacent pixel array.
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Ownership
APTINA IMAGING CORPORATION
assignment · 335400235
Assignors
BLACK, ROBERT A.
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