US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 19 for "Element, system having the element, and judging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,286, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Element, system having the element, and judging apparatus" was invented by Shigeru Matsumoto (Sagamihara, Japan), Sota Nakanishi (Kawasaki, Japan), Tomohisa Ishida (Tokyo), Atsushi Miyamoto (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kiyoshi Uchikawa (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element includes a plurality of light-receiving elements to photoelectrically convert light received from an object, a convolution processing unit to perform convolution operation on signals that are output from the plurality of light-receiving elements, and a pooling processing unit to sample a sig...