US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Time-resolving computational image sensor architecture for time-of-flight, high-dynamic-range, and high-speed imaging" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,647, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Time-resolving computational image sensor architecture for time-of-flight, high-dynamic-range, and high-speed imaging" was invented by Yibing Michelle Wang (Temple City, Calif.), Lilong Shi (Pasadena, Calif.) and Kwang Oh Kim (Cerritos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel for an image sensor includes a photon sensor, a memory, and an accumulator. The photon sensor element portion outputs a signal to an accumulator, which then may add value stored in memory together and may transfer the result to the memory of another pixel. The p...