Patent ID: 7893981

Claim:
A charge-coupled device image sensor comprising: (a) a two-dimensional array of pixels having a plurality of rows and columns, the two-dimensional array comprising: (i) a plurality of gates arranged as a charge-coupled device; wherein the array further includes a plurality of charge-coupled devices that are arranged to be clocked by one or more common timing signals; (ii) a transition region, electrically connected to the array, having a first and second row of gates in which the second row is electrically mated into a plurality of first and second pairs of gates in which first pairs of gates are electrically connected to a first common signal line clocked by a first common timing signal and second pairs of gates are electrically connected to a second common signal line clocked by a second common timing signal; wherein the first row of gates are electrically connected to a third common signal line clocked with a distinct third common timing signal; and (b) a horizontal shift register adjacent the second row of gates.