ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,747, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Photo voltaic image sensor to supress black solar" was invented by Yoshiyuki Matsunaga (Kyoto, Japan), Keiji Mabuchi (Cupertino, Calif.) and Lindsay Grant (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel of an image sensor includes a photodiode, a reset transistor, a peak hold transistor, and a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The pixels include, a first mode in which the noise and image output voltages of the photodiode are held in the first and second capacitors, respectively, and a second mode in which the output voltage of ...