US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on March 18 for "Reference pixel column readout" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,162, issued on March 18, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Reference pixel column readout" was invented by Nicholas Paul Cowley (Wroughton, Great Britain) and Andrew David Talbot (Chieveley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor may include an image sensor pixel array. The image sensor pixel array may include active image sensor pixels that generate image data based on incident light and reference pixels that are optically black for generating reference data for noise compensation. Sets of reference pixels in the same row may be coupled to respective shared readout p...