ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,871, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KOKUSAI DENKI Electric Inc. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device" was invented by Sho Kato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device using a CMOS imaging element includes a memory that stores, as a correction reference value, a gain exceeding a gain obtained by the imaging element and at which a linear fixed pattern noise starts to occur in a captured image; and an image processor that suppresses the fixed pattern noise when the gain exceeding the gain obtained by the imaging element exceeds the correction reference value. The captured image includes multiple pixel lines, each pixel in each ...