US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 13 for "Image sensor for distance measurement and camera module including the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,542, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor for distance measurement and camera module including the same" was invented by Younggu Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor for distance measurement and a camera module including the same are provided. The image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixels, a control circuit configured to provide a plurality of photo gate signals to the plurality of unit pixels, respectively, and a readout circuit configured to read out pixel signals from the pixel array on a frame-b...