Patent ID: 7462807

Claim:
An image sensor comprising: a matrix of rows and columns of photosensitive dots, made on a chip of general square or rectangular shape with beveled corners, a reading register placed on the chip at the bottom of the matrix, said register having a horizontal part and two oblique parts running respectively along a horizontal part of the chip and two beveled corners of the chip and said matrix having columns terminating on the reading register on the horizontal part and columns terminating on the register on the two beveled parts of the register, said register including an input configured to store in parallel signals representative of exposure of pixels to light, and an output configured to serially output corresponding signals, and a structure for directing photosensitive charges of columns terminating opposite the beveled corners to register stages situated in the oblique parts alongside the beveled corners, said structure comprising insulating zones extending between adjacent columns of the matrix, parallel to said columns, wherein insulating zones which terminate on a beveled part of the register have terminal portions bent towards said beveled part.