US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 11 for "Distributed ramp linearity compensation circuit" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,851, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed ramp linearity compensation circuit" was invented by Hiroaki Ebihara (San Jose, Calif.), Nobuhiro Yanagisawa (San Jose, Calif.), Satoshi Sakurai (Cupertino, Calif.), Tomoyasu Tate (Cupertino, Calif.), Naoki Kitazawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Kohei Harada (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system comprises a pixel array configured to generate a plurality of image charge voltage signals in response to incident light, and readout circuitry coupled to the pixel array, the readout circuitry including a plurality of ...