ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,805, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automatic termination of image sensor for analog histogram depth sensing" was invented by Ali Mesgarani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Umanath Ramachandra Kamath (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Augusto Ronchini Ximenes (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes a method of operating an image sensor and a plurality of memory cells associated with the image sensor, each memory cell comprising: one or more input lines, a stop exposure output line; a storage capacitor; and a stop exposure circuit. The method may comprise, by each of the me...