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Granted Patent B2
US 9,379,157 · App. 13/437,228 · Granted Jun 28, 2016

Image acquisition device, biometric authentication device, and electronic apparatus

Inventors: Hitoshi Tsuchiya (Suwa, JP); Hideto Ishiguro (Shiojiri, JP); Tsukasa Eguchi (Matsumoto, JP)
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
H01L27/14632G06K9/0004H01L27/14618H01L27/14625H01L27/14627H01L2924/0002
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Patent No.
US 9,379,157
App. No.
13/437,228
Granted
Jun 28, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image acquisition device includes: an imaging unit which has a plurality of light receiving elements; a condensing unit which condenses light which is input to the light receiving elements, and includes a plurality of microlenses which are arranged one to one with the light receiving elements on a plane; and a band pass filter including amorphous silicon films on a path on which light from an object is input to the light receiving elements.

Claims (30)

1. An image acquisition device comprising:

a light source which irradiates an object with light; and

a band pass filter on a path on which the light from the object is input to light receiving elements,

the band pass filter being configured by two mirror layers and a spacer layer, the spacer layer being pinched by the two mirror layers,

each of the two mirror layers having a structure including amorphous silicon thin films and a thin film, the thin film being alternately laminated with an amorphous silicon thin film,

each of the amorphous silicon thin films having an optical path length of approximately λ/4 in the peak wavelength (λ) of the light source,

the thin film being formed of a material having a different refractivity from the amorphous silicon thin films, and

the spacer layer being the amorphous silicon thin film which has an optical path length of approximately λ/2 in the peak wavelength (λ) of the light source, or a thin film which is formed of a material with a different refractivity from the amorphous silicon thin films.

2. An image acquisition device comprising:

a light source which irradiates an object with light; and

a band pass filter on a path on which the light from the object is input to light receiving elements,

the band pass filter being configured by two mirror layers and a spacer layer, the spacer layer being pinched by the two mirror layers,

each of the two mirror layers having a structure including amorphous silicon thin films and a thin film, the thin film being alternately laminated with an amorphous silicon thin film,

each of the amorphous silicon thin films having an optical path length of approximately (λ2)/4 in a wavelength (λ2), which is shorter than a peak wavelength (λ) of the light source,

the thin film being formed of a material having a different refractivity from the amorphous silicon thin films, and

the spacer layer comprising an amorphous silicon thin film which has an optical path length of approximately (λ3)/2 in a wavelength (λ3), which is longer than the peak wavelength (λ) of the light source, or a thin film which is formed of a material with a different refractivity from the amorphous silicon thin films.

3. An image acquisition device comprising:

a light source which irradiates an object with light;

a band pass filter on a path on which the light from the object is input to light receiving elements;

the band pass filter having a structure in which an amorphous silicon thin film and a thin film are alternately laminated by odd number layers (2n+1, n=2, 3, . . . ), the thin film being formed of a material having a different refractivity from the amorphous silicon thin film, and the optical path length of the band pass filter other than the n+1th layer is approximately (λ5)/4 in a wavelength (λ5) which is shorter than the peak wavelength (λ) of the light source, and the optical path length of the n+1th layer is smaller than the approximate (λ5)/4 in the wavelength (λ5), which is shorter than the peak wavelength (λ) of the light source.

4. A biometric authentication device which obtains human biological information, and performs personal authentication, comprising:

the image acquisition device according to claim 1 .

5. A biometric authentication device which obtains human biological information, and performs personal authentication, comprising:

the image acquisition device according to claim 2 .

6. A biometric authentication device which obtains human biological information, and performs personal authentication, comprising:

the image acquisition device according to claim 3 .

7. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the biometric authentication device according to claim 4 .

8. An electronic apparatus comprising:

the biometric authentication device according to claim 5 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 2, 2012
From: TSUCHIYA, HITOSHI; ISHIGURO, HIDETO; EUGCHI, TSUKASA
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 027985/0116 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-085162 · Apr 7, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120257031A1 · Oct 11, 2012