Richard Billings Merrill

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Woodside, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...
- Patent number 8,487,349
- Issue date Jul 16, 2013
- Foveon, Inc.
- Jaroslav Hynecek
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Pinned photodiode CMOS pixel sensor
- Patent number 8,115,242
- Issue date Feb 14, 2012
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
CMOS pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted comm...
- Patent number 8,039,916
- Issue date Oct 18, 2011
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
CMOS pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted comm...
- Patent number 7,834,411
- Issue date Nov 16, 2010
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for eliminating image artifacts due to defecti...
- Patent number 7,796,172
- Issue date Sep 14, 2010
- Foveon, Inc.
- Timothy M. Slagle
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Multi-color CMOS pixel sensor with shared row wiring and dual outpu...
- Patent number 7,745,773
- Issue date Jun 29, 2010
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Intra-pixel fixed-pattern-noise cancellation circuit and method
- Patent number 7,683,953
- Issue date Mar 23, 2010
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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High-gain multicolor pixel sensor with reset noise cancellation
- Patent number 7,602,430
- Issue date Oct 13, 2009
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...
- Patent number 7,541,627
- Issue date Jun 2, 2009
- Foveon, Inc.
- Jaroslav Hynecek
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Methods for manufacturing and testing image sensing devices
- Patent number 7,502,066
- Issue date Mar 10, 2009
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Vertical color filter sensor group array with full-resolution top l...
- Patent number 7,339,216
- Issue date Mar 4, 2008
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard F. Lyon
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...
- Patent number 7,166,880
- Issue date Jan 23, 2007
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Vertical color filter detector group with highlight detector
- Patent number 7,164,444
- Issue date Jan 16, 2007
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Complete-charge-transfer vertical color filter detector
- Patent number 7,132,724
- Issue date Nov 7, 2006
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Electronic shutter using buried layers and active pixel sensor and...
- Patent number 7,110,028
- Issue date Sep 19, 2006
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Vertical color filter sensor group array that emulates a pattern of...
- Patent number 6,998,660
- Issue date Feb 14, 2006
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard F. Lyon
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Large dynamic range, low-leakage vertical color pixel sensor
- Patent number 6,965,102
- Issue date Nov 15, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Simplified wiring schemes for vertical color filter pixel sensors
- Patent number 6,960,757
- Issue date Nov 1, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Active pixel sensor with noise cancellation
- Patent number 6,940,551
- Issue date Sep 6, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Method and circuit employing current sensing to read a sensor
- Patent number 6,937,025
- Issue date Aug 30, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Edison Fong
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
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Method for storing and retrieving data from an imaging array of ver...
- Patent number 6,934,050
- Issue date Aug 23, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Vertical-color-filter detector group with trench isolation
- Patent number 6,930,336
- Issue date Aug 16, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Grant
Vertical color filter sensor group including semiconductor other th...
- Patent number 6,914,314
- Issue date Jul 5, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Single poly EPROM cell having smaller size and improved data retent...
- Patent number 6,905,929
- Issue date Jun 14, 2005
- National Semiconductor Corporation
- Richard B. Merrill
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
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Vertical color filter sensor group and semiconductor integrated cir...
- Patent number 6,894,265
- Issue date May 17, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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High-sensitivity storage pixel sensor having auto-exposure detection
- Patent number 6,882,367
- Issue date Apr 19, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Grant
Vertical color filter detector group and array
- Patent number 6,864,557
- Issue date Mar 8, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard M. Turner
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Vertical color filter sensor group with non-sensor filter and metho...
- Patent number 6,841,816
- Issue date Jan 11, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
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Exposure control in electronic cameras by detecting overflow from a...
- Patent number 6,833,871
- Issue date Dec 21, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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Double slope pixel sensor and array
- Patent number 6,809,768
- Issue date Oct 26, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH DEPLETED PHOTOCOLLECTORS AND A DEPLETED COMM...
- Publication number 20110057238
- Publication date Mar 10, 2011
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
MULTI-COLOR CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH SHARED ROW WIRING AND DUAL OUTPU...
- Publication number 20100155576
- Publication date Jun 24, 2010
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY IN VERTICAL COLOR CM...
- Publication number 20090207294
- Publication date Aug 20, 2009
- Foveon, Inc.
- Jaroslav Hynecek
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH DEPLETED PHOTOCOLLECTORS AND A DEPLETED COMM...
- Publication number 20080283880
- Publication date Nov 20, 2008
- FOVEON, INC.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
PINNED PHOTODIODE CMOS PIXEL SENSOR
- Publication number 20080185619
- Publication date Aug 7, 2008
- FOVEON, INC.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...
- Publication number 20050194653
- Publication date Sep 8, 2005
- Foveon, Inc.
- Jaroslav Hynecek
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...
- Publication number 20050087829
- Publication date Apr 28, 2005
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Simplified wiring schemes for vertical color filter pixel sensors
- Publication number 20040185597
- Publication date Sep 23, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...
- Publication number 20040178463
- Publication date Sep 16, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group array that emulates a pattern of...
- Publication number 20040178467
- Publication date Sep 16, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard F. Lyon
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group and semiconductor integrated cir...
- Publication number 20040178466
- Publication date Sep 16, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group with non-sensor filter and metho...
- Publication number 20040178465
- Publication date Sep 16, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter sensor group including semiconductor other th...
- Publication number 20040178464
- Publication date Sep 16, 2004
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Multiple storage node full color active pixel sensors
- Publication number 20030169359
- Publication date Sep 11, 2003
- Foven, Inc. a California Corporation
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter detector group and array
- Publication number 20030038296
- Publication date Feb 27, 2003
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter detector group and array
- Publication number 20020190254
- Publication date Dec 19, 2002
- Richard M. Turner
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter detector and array method for storing and ret...
- Publication number 20020171881
- Publication date Nov 21, 2002
- Foveon, Inc., a California Corporation.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Vertical color filter detector group and array
- Publication number 20020058353
- Publication date May 16, 2002
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H01 - BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
Information Patent Application
Active pixel sensor with noise cancellation
- Publication number 20020036700
- Publication date Mar 28, 2002
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
Method for capturing a dark frame
- Publication number 20020024605
- Publication date Feb 28, 2002
- Foveon, Inc.
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
IMAGE SCANNING CIRCUITRY WITH ROW AND COLUMN ADDRESSING FOR USE IN...
- Publication number 20020018600
- Publication date Feb 14, 2002
- RICHARD F. LYON
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
All-electronic high-resolution digital still camera
- Publication number 20020015101
- Publication date Feb 7, 2002
- Carver A. Mead
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
Information Patent Application
CMOS active pixel sensor using native transistors
- Publication number 20010010353
- Publication date Aug 2, 2001
- Richard B. Merrill
- H04 - ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

Richard Billings Merrill

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...

Pinned photodiode CMOS pixel sensor

CMOS pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted comm...

CMOS pixel sensor with depleted photocollectors and a depleted comm...

Method and apparatus for eliminating image artifacts due to defecti...

Multi-color CMOS pixel sensor with shared row wiring and dual outpu...

Intra-pixel fixed-pattern-noise cancellation circuit and method

High-gain multicolor pixel sensor with reset noise cancellation

Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...

Methods for manufacturing and testing image sensing devices

Vertical color filter sensor group array with full-resolution top l...

Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...

Vertical color filter detector group with highlight detector

Complete-charge-transfer vertical color filter detector

Electronic shutter using buried layers and active pixel sensor and...

Vertical color filter sensor group array that emulates a pattern of...

Large dynamic range, low-leakage vertical color pixel sensor

Simplified wiring schemes for vertical color filter pixel sensors

Active pixel sensor with noise cancellation

Method and circuit employing current sensing to read a sensor

Method for storing and retrieving data from an imaging array of ver...

Vertical-color-filter detector group with trench isolation

Vertical color filter sensor group including semiconductor other th...

Single poly EPROM cell having smaller size and improved data retent...

Vertical color filter sensor group and semiconductor integrated cir...

High-sensitivity storage pixel sensor having auto-exposure detection

Vertical color filter detector group and array

Vertical color filter sensor group with non-sensor filter and metho...

Exposure control in electronic cameras by detecting overflow from a...

Double slope pixel sensor and array

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH DEPLETED PHOTOCOLLECTORS AND A DEPLETED COMM...

MULTI-COLOR CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH SHARED ROW WIRING AND DUAL OUTPU...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVING SENSITIVITY IN VERTICAL COLOR CM...

CMOS PIXEL SENSOR WITH DEPLETED PHOTOCOLLECTORS AND A DEPLETED COMM...

PINNED PHOTODIODE CMOS PIXEL SENSOR

Method and apparatus for improving sensitivity in vertical color CM...

Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...

Simplified wiring schemes for vertical color filter pixel sensors

Vertical color filter sensor group with carrier-collection elements...

Vertical color filter sensor group array that emulates a pattern of...

Vertical color filter sensor group and semiconductor integrated cir...

Vertical color filter sensor group with non-sensor filter and metho...

Vertical color filter sensor group including semiconductor other th...

Multiple storage node full color active pixel sensors

Vertical color filter detector group and array

Vertical color filter detector group and array

Vertical color filter detector and array method for storing and ret...

Vertical color filter detector group and array

Active pixel sensor with noise cancellation

Method for capturing a dark frame

IMAGE SCANNING CIRCUITRY WITH ROW AND COLUMN ADDRESSING FOR USE IN...

All-electronic high-resolution digital still camera

CMOS active pixel sensor using native transistors