US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Nov. 11 for "Green image correction in phase-detection image sensor remosaicing" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,837, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Green image correction in phase-detection image sensor remosaicing" was invented by Lei Fan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Yiyi Ren (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system comprising (1) a phase-detection image sensor comprising a plurality of phase-detection (PD) pixel units, each pixel unit comprises an upper left PD pixel, an upper right PD pixel, a lower left PD pixel, and a lower right PD pixel, the upper left PD pixel, the upper right PD pixel, the lower left PD pixel, and the lower right PD pixel covered by a mic...