ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,050, issued on April 15, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Phase-detection image sensor remosaicing" was invented by Yiyi Ren (Cupertino, Calif.), Wenshou Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lei Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nian Xiong (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system comprising a phase-detection image sensor comprising a plurality of phase-detection pixel units and a processor configured to: interpolate a green image to obtain a full resolution interpolated green image including defocused portions having artifacts and in-focus portions having sharp image, low-pass filter...