Patent 9516248 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method of controlling a photosensor having adjacent light sensitive pixels in which photocharge is generated in depletion zones of the pixels by light incident on the photosensor, comprising applying voltage to gate electrodes of the photopixels so that the depletion zone of one of the pixels extends into and lies under a portion of the depletion region of the other pixel.