US Patent Issued to Gigajot Technology on March 4 for "Image sensor with switchable in-pixel binning during readout" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,950, issued on March 4, was assigned to Gigajot Technology Inc. (Glendale, Calif.).

"Image sensor with switchable in-pixel binning during readout" was invented by Jiaju Ma (Monrovia, Calif.) and Saleh Masoodian (Monrovia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "First and second readout circuits, each having a respective floating diffusion node, are coupled to a photodetection element within a pixel of an integrated-circuit image sensor. Following an exposure interval in which photocharge is accumulated within the photodetection element, a first portion of the accumulated photocharge is transferred from the photodetection element to the...