ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,946, issued on March 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus and imaging sensor" was invented by Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, Japan), Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, Japan), Junya Kitagawa (Saitama, Japan) and Yuya Nishio (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The pixel region includes a first phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of which the first side of the photoelectric conversion element is blocked by the light blocking layer in a first side region of the first side, and a second phase difference pixel group including a plurality of the phase difference pixels of whi...