ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,604, issued on May 27, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).
"Analog operation circuit for processing pixel data in analog phase" was invented by Ren-Chieh Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Chih-Huan Wu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yi-Hsien Ko (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Han-Chi Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a pixel circuit for performing analog operation including a photodiode, a first circuit, a second circuit and an operation circuit. Within a first interval, the photodiode detects first light energy to be stored in the first circuit. Within a second interval, t...