US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 22 for "Image sensor including CMOS image sensor pixel and dynamic vision sensor pixel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,978, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including CMOS image sensor pixel and dynamic vision sensor pixel" was invented by Yunjae Suh (Incheon, South Korea), Junseok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Hyunsurk Ryu (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Keun Joo Park (Seoul, South Korea) and Masamichi Ito (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a CIS (CMOS image sensor) pixel, a DVS (dynamic vision sensor) pixel, and an image signal processor. The CIS pixel includes a photoelectric conversion device generating charges corresponding to an in...