US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 27 for "Camera devices having autofocus pixels" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,988, issued on May 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Camera devices having autofocus pixels" was invented by Heesu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daekwan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Taeshick Wang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera device includes an image sensor including a pixel array and a logic circuit, with the camera device further comprising an optical module that includes a plurality of lenses arranged in a path of travel of light incident on the image sensor. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels having a general pixel, a first autofocus pixel and a seco...