ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,698, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Leica Camera AG (Wetzlar, Germany).
"Method of generating an output signal of a PDAF pixel" was invented by Benjamin Hopp (Giessen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method of generating an output signal of a PDAF pixel of an optoelectronic image sensor array, including detecting pixel signals of the pixels of the image sensor arranged within the environment of a PDAF pixel; determining a structure direction of an image structure imaged onto the image sensor from the pixel signals of at least some of the pixels arranged within the environment; and generating the output signa...