US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Nov. 18 for "Image sensor including counter performing shifting operation and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,249, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including counter performing shifting operation and operation method thereof" was invented by Hyeokjong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a counter which generates a binary code and a digital signal The counter includes: a reset memory circuit configured to store a sum of N reset binary codes, each of the N reset binary codes corresponding to a result of comparing a reset signal of the pixel signal with the ramp signal, and to calculate one of the N reset binary codes by performing a shiftin...