ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,543, issued on April 29, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Yoshiaki Satou (Kyoto, Japan), Yasuo Miyake (Osaka, Japan), Yusuke Okada (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is provided with a pixel array section including multiple pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and a column signal processor. The multiple pixels include multiple imaging pixels that each output a pixel signal corresponding to incident light and multiple reference pixels which are aligned in the column direction in...