US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 1 for "Electronic device, and method for performing autofocus by rotating or reordering AF data" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,865, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device, and method for performing autofocus by rotating or reordering AF data" was invented by Changwoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Dohan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jinmin Bang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jaehun Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes an image sensor including a plurality of pixels, an AP processing unit, a memory, and a control unit. Each pixel included in the plurality of pixels includes a plurality of photodiodes and a microlen...