US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 30 for "Image sensor and electronic device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,435, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and electronic device including the same" was invented by Soonik Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jahyun Koo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dahsom Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Donghoon Sung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seokyong Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel array, a ramp signal generating circuit configured to output a first reference ramp signal of a first slope as a first ramp signal in a first period and a second reference ramp signal of a second slope as the first ramp sign...