ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,979, issued on May 27, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Image sensors having image blur correction" was invented by Takatoshi Nakata (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroki Ui (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises a plurality of high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, and a processor for processing signals read out from the plurality of low sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements and the plurality of high sensitivity photoelectric conversion elements, where the processor is configured to rea...