ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,041, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GUANGZHOU LUXVISIONS INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY Ltd. (Guangzhou, China).

"Image capturing apparatus" was invented by Shih-Chieh Yen (Guangzhou, China) and Erh-Wen Lan (Guangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a plurality of sensing modules. The plurality of sensing modules are arranged in an arrayed manner. Each of the sensing modules includes a plurality of polarization elements, a plurality of optical filtering elements, a plurality of first photodiodes, and a plurality of second photodiodes. The plurality of polarization elements have polarization directions respec...