US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on Jan. 20 for "Colour and time-of-flight pixel pattern for an image sensor" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,081, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Colour and time-of-flight pixel pattern for an image sensor" was invented by Clemence Jamin (Grenoble, France), Jerome Vaillant (Grenoble, France), Alexis Rochas (Grenoble, France) and Yvon Cazaux (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including a plurality of pixels divided into elementary groups, each elementary group including a plurality of adjacent pixels arranged in a matrix, in rows and columns, each elementary group including first pixels, second and third visible image pixels sensitive in...