US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Jan. 13 for "Method to improve pixel failure coverage in global shutter image sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,554, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method to improve pixel failure coverage in global shutter image sensor" was invented by Liang Zuo (Milpitas, Calif.), Zhenfu Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Jiayu Guo (Milpitas, Calif.), Dennis Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhiqiang Song (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global shutter image sensor with improved pixel failure coverage detects failures caused by the pixel chip of the image sensor. The global shutter image sensor includes a pixel chip including an array of photodiodes and associated logic, and a logic chip, bonded to th...