US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Aug. 26 for "System and method for using an image sensor having image pixels and spectral pixels" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,062, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System and method for using an image sensor having image pixels and spectral pixels" was invented by Paul Wickboldt (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Ramakrishna Kakarala (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jau-Jan Deng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes capturing an image from a scene with an image sensor. The image sensor has a plurality of spectral pixels and a plurality of image pixels. The method also includes collecting gathered data from the spectral-imaging array based on the light received. The gathered data is separated in...