US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Image sensor to suppress flicker" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,459, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Image sensor to suppress flicker" 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: "An image sensor includes: a photodiode configured to be reset for each one frame period, to accumulate charges corresponding to incident light for one frame period, and to output an output voltage corresponding to the accumulated charges; and a holding capacitor configured to accumulate charges corresponding to an output signal of the photodiode. The output...