Patent Application 20100091128 from Sony is for an imager with optical instead of electrical signal out. From the summary: “A solid-state imager includes a pixel unit for converting incident light into an electrical signal, a substrate bearing the pixel unit formed thereon, an analog-to-digital converter, formed on the substrate, for converting a signal read from the pixel unit into a digital signal, an optical communication unit, arranged on [...]
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