US Patent Issued to Himax Imaging on Dec. 23 for "Correction method and device for handling column fixed pattern noise of image sensor and related image sensing device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,982, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Himax Imaging Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Correction method and device for handling column fixed pattern noise of image sensor and related image sensing device" was invented by Wei-Chieh Yang (Tainan, Taiwan), Po-Chang Chen (Tainan, Taiwan) and Felix Su (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A correction device includes: an offset updating unit, a calculating unit and a gain stretching unit. The offset updating unit is configured to generate a plurality of updated offset values according to a plurality of base offset values, wherein each of the plurality of updated offset values correspondi...