US Patent Issued to PIXART IMAGING on Dec. 30 for "Optical sensor outputting partial image data of pixel array" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,429, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

"Optical sensor outputting partial image data of pixel array" was invented by Ren-Chieh Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Yi-Cheng Chiu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a pixel circuit capable of outputting time difference data and image data, and including an image circuit and a difference circuit. The image circuit is used to record and output detected light energy of a first interval as the image data. The difference circuit is used to record and output a variation of detected light energy between the fir...