US 12,222,454 B2
Integrated lidar image-sensor devices and systems and related methods of operation
Hod Finkelstein, Berkeley, CA (US); Dietrich Dehlinger, San Francisco, CA (US); Scott Burroughs, Raleigh, NC (US); and Brent Fisher, Bethesda, MD (US)
Assigned to Sense Photonics, Inc., Durham, NC (US)
Filed by Sense Photonics, Inc., Durham, NC (US)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/169,909.
Application 18/169,909 is a continuation of application No. 16/542,696, filed on Aug. 16, 2019, granted, now 11,598,857.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/764,895, filed on Aug. 16, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2023/0194679 A1, Jun. 22, 2023
Int. Cl. G01S 7/486 (2020.01); G01S 7/481 (2006.01); G01S 7/4863 (2020.01); G01S 7/487 (2006.01)
CPC G01S 7/4863 (2013.01) [G01S 7/4816 (2013.01); G01S 7/4876 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) apparatus, comprising:
a detector comprising a first pixel and a second pixel configured to output respective detection signals responsive to light incident thereon, the first pixel comprising one or more time of flight (ToF) sensors, and the second pixel comprising one or more image sensors; and
a gate structure that overlaps at least a portion of the first pixel and at least a portion of the second pixel in plan view.