US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on Feb. 18 for "Method and optical motion sensor capable of identifying false motion" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,969, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Method and optical motion sensor capable of identifying false motion" was invented by Joon Chok Lee (Penang, Malaysia) and Kevin Len-Li Lim (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of identifying a false alarm of an optical motion sensor including a plurality of pixel units, includes: receiving pixel values of a testing set of pixel units selected from the plurality of pixel units, and a number of pixels of the testing set is smaller than a number of the plurality of pixel units; and performing a background adjustment operation according...