US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Image sensor and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,640, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Image sensor and operating method thereof" was invented by Eunsub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhyun Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kyungho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor and an operating method of the image sensor may include a pixel array including a plurality of pixels; a controller configured to generate a pre-shutter driving signal associated with a pre-shutter operation, the pre-shutter driving signal generated before a first shutter operation and a first read operation correspon...