US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 7 for "Image sensor and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,178, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and operating method thereof" was invented by Kyungmin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Dongkyun Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels operating in a plurality of modes, a readout circuit configured to receive a pixel signal corresponding to each of the plurality of modes from each of the pixels and generate a pixel value that is a digital signal from the pixel signal, and a signal processor configured to determine whether a target pixel va...