US Patent Issued to PIXART IMAGING on Dec. 16 for "Optical navigation device capable of determining shutter interval with mode transition and operating method thereof" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,798, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Optical navigation device capable of determining shutter interval with mode transition and operating method thereof" was invented by Yen-Hsiang Chew (Penang, Malaysia) and Keng-Yeen Lye (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an optical navigation device including a light sensor and a processor. The light sensor is configured to capture image frames using a predetermined frame period. The processor is configured to calculate image statistics according to a first image frame captured by the light sensor and determine an e...