US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 29 for "Analog-to-digital converting circuit using auto-zero period optimization and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,116, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital converting circuit using auto-zero period optimization and operation method thereof" was invented by Jaehoon Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a first amplifier that first compares a ramp signal and a reset signal of a pixel signal output from a pixel array in a first operation period, second compares the ramp signal and an image signal of the pixel signal in a second operation period, and generates a first output signal in the first and second operation periods based on first and...