Patent Theme
3D Image Sensor Pixel Design
Focuses on advanced pixel architectures, often involving vertical stacking (3D) or silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structures, to improve performance, density, or functionality of photodiodes, transistors, and floating diffusion regions within image sensor pixels.
8,405 US filings from 772 companies since 2023 · 2023: 2,056 · 2024: 2,493 · 2025: 2,673 · 2026 YTD: 1,183
Photovoltaic / Photoconductive Devices
Top companies
Ranked by filings in this theme since 2023. 2026 is partial.
| # | Company | Since 2023 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 YTD | YoY |
|---|
| 1 | SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. | 1,504 | 353 | 424 | 478 | 249 | +12.7% |
| 2 | Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation | 1,374 | 334 | 494 | 403 | 143 | -18.4% |
| 3 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd. | 716 | 126 | 188 | 297 | 105 | +58.0% |
| 4 | CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA | 492 | 109 | 116 | 191 | 76 | +64.7% |
| 5 | SK hynix Inc. | 389 | 114 | 102 | 117 | 56 | +14.7% |
| 6 | OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | 324 | 81 | 90 | 95 | 58 | +5.6% |
| 7 | SONY GROUP CORPORATION | 192 | 79 | 76 | 30 | 7 | -60.5% |
| 8 | Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. | 170 | 57 | 55 | 52 | 6 | -5.5% |
| 9 | SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC | 154 | 29 | 39 | 51 | 35 | +30.8% |
| 10 | NIKON CORPORATION | 129 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 9 | +2.5% |
| 11 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | 101 | 40 | 29 | 26 | 6 | -10.3% |
| 12 | Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd. | 83 | 26 | 30 | 20 | 7 | -33.3% |
| 13 | PixArt Imaging Inc. | 76 | 17 | 24 | 25 | 10 | +4.2% |
| 14 | TOKYO VISIONARY OPTICS Co., Ltd. | 71 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 1 | -66.7% |
| 15 | Apple Inc. | 69 | 8 | 18 | 30 | 13 | +66.7% |
| 16 | STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS | 63 | 17 | 20 | 18 | 8 | -10.0% |
| 17 | HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K. | 57 | 13 | 14 | 17 | 13 | +21.4% |
| 18 | VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LIMITED | 56 | 16 | 14 | 24 | 2 | +71.4% |
| 19 | Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC | 36 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 2 | -75.0% |
| 20 | Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited | 36 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 3 | +183.3% |
| 21 | FUJIFILM CORPORATION | 34 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 2 | -21.4% |
| 22 | SONY CORPORATION | 34 | 20 | 14 | · | · | — |
| 23 | VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY LTD. | 34 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 8 | +114.3% |
| 24 | BRILLNICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. | 33 | 9 | 16 | 7 | 1 | -56.2% |
| 25 | Gigajot Technology, Inc. | 31 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 1 | +37.5% |