US 11,709,271 B2
Time of flight sensing system and image sensor used therein
Yujin Park, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Hansang Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Jeongeun Song, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Minseok Shin, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Ohjun Kwon, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Kangbong Seo, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Sungwook Seo, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Jinuk Jeon, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by SK hynix Inc., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/890,170.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0162790 (KR), filed on Dec. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0173086 A1, Jun. 10, 2021
Int. Cl. G01S 17/00 (2020.01); G01S 17/894 (2020.01); G01S 17/10 (2020.01); G01S 7/4865 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01)
CPC G01S 17/894 (2020.01) [G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); G01S 7/4863 (2013.01); G01S 7/4865 (2013.01); G01S 17/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image sensor employed in a time-of-flight (TOF) sensing system, comprising:
a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in plural rows and plural columns, each pixel generating an amount of charge in response to an incident light; and
first driving circuitry configured to supply a driving control signal to each pixel via the plural columns,
wherein the first driving circuitry is configured to supply the driving control signal via one of odd and even columns, the odd and even columns forming a single combined unit.