US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Image sensor pixel array having minimal repeating unit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,850, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image sensor pixel array having minimal repeating unit" was invented by Xiaodong Yang (San Jose, Calif.), Masao Sambongi (Fremont, Calif.), Chengming Liu (Fremont, Calif.) and Chen Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, an image sensor comprises a pixel array having a minimal repeating unit, where the minimal repeating unit consists of 4x4 pixels including 12 green pixels, 2 blue pixels, and 2 red pixels, where a minimal repeating unit is immediately next to another minimal repeating unit in row and column di...