US Patent Issued to PROPHESEE on Jan. 20 for "Global and cluster contrast detection in vision neuromorphic sensors" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,086, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to PROPHESEE (Paris).

"Global and cluster contrast detection in vision neuromorphic sensors" was invented by Thomas Finateu (Veneux les sablons, France) and Farzaneh Shahrokhi (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event-based vision sensor comprises an array of pixel circuits, each configured to produce a respective photocurrent, wherein the array of pixel circuits is divided into one or more clusters of multiple pixel circuits; and a cluster control circuit configured, for each cluster, to generate (i) a summation of the photocurrents produced by the pixel circuits of the cluster and (ii) clus...