US 11,991,464 B2
Light detection element
Chin-Lung Ting, Miao-Li County (TW); Ming Chun Tseng, Miao-Li County (TW); Ho-Tien Chen, Miao-Li County (TW); and Kung-Chen Kuo, Miao-Li County (TW)
Assigned to Innolux Corporation, Miaoli County (TW)
Filed by Innolux Corporation, Miao-Li County (TW)
Filed on Sep. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/482,439.
Claims priority of application No. 202011084117.4 (CN), filed on Oct. 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0116560 A1, Apr. 14, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 25/709 (2023.01); H01L 27/146 (2006.01); H04N 25/71 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 25/709 (2023.01) [H01L 27/14614 (2013.01); H04N 25/745 (2023.01); H04N 25/75 (2023.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A light detection element, comprising:
a first light detection unit, comprising a first transistor and a first light sensing unit, wherein the first transistor and the first light sensing unit are electrically connected;
a second light detection unit, electrically connected to the first light detection unit, comprising a second light sensing unit and a second transistor, wherein the second light sensing unit and the second transistor are electrically connected;
a driving transistor, having a gate terminal, wherein the gate terminal is electrically connected to the first light sensing unit and the second light sensing unit,
wherein in a time interval, the first transistor is not turned on and the second transistor is turned on, wherein the first transistor is controlled by a first signal, and the second transistor is controlled by a second signal;
a control circuit, configured to determine whether to allow the second signal to control the second transistor; and
a feedback circuit, configured to determine that a direct light is detected by the light detection element when a voltage at the gate terminal is a third voltage, or configured to determine that a reflected light is detected by the light detection element when a voltage at the gate terminal is a fourth voltage.