US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Jan. 13 for "Adaptive optical attenuation in high dynamic range imaging" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,533, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Adaptive optical attenuation in high dynamic range imaging" was invented by Orit Skorka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Barry Vanhoff (Corvallis, Ore.), Radu Ispasoiu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Vladimir Korobov (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image sensors, imaging systems, and methods for high dynamic range imaging. The image sensor includes image sensor pixels, a light filter, and a controller. The light filter is configured to attenuate transmission of incident light to the image sensor pixels. The controller is configured to...