ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,219, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Jaekyu Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Heesung Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, each of the pixels including: a photodiode; a floating diffusion node configured to accumulate photocharges generated from the photodiode; a first capacitor configured to store charges according to a voltage of the floating diffusion node which is reset; a second capacit...