US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Method and systems of image sensors with pixels having circular polarizers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,742, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and systems of image sensors with pixels having circular polarizers" was invented by Victor Lenchenkov (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor has an array of a tiling pattern of cells, each cell having at least one spiral nanowire circular polarizer formed of nanowires less than 80 nanometers in width; and photodiodes to receive incoming light form the circular polarizer. In embodiments, the polarizer is a descending spiral circular polarizer including at least four nanowires each about fifty nanometers wide at...