US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Ramp signal generator, image sensor, and auto-zero level control method for ramp signals" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,049, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Ramp signal generator, image sensor, and auto-zero level control method for ramp signals" was invented by Dongjae Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaejung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seunghyun Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Haneul Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ramp signal generator may include a current cell unit including a plurality of current sources configured to generate current signals, and a resistance unit connected to an output terminal of the current cell unit. The resistance unit may include a loa...