US Patent Issued to FAIRCHILD IMAGING on Sept. 30 for "Image sensors with dynamic pixel defect detection and correction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,338, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FAIRCHILD IMAGING INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Image sensors with dynamic pixel defect detection and correction" was invented by Alexander Lu (San Jose, Calif.), William G. Tian (Campbell, Calif.), Angel Lopez (Newark, Calif.) and Mark Hess (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Defect detection and correction circuitry for image sensors. Example circuitry includes dynamic defect detection circuitry configured to determine an average of a subset of a plurality of pixel output values, the subset excluding maximum and minimum values from among the plurality of pixel output values, determine...