US Patent Issued to SK hynix on May 20 for "Readout circuit for reducing noise in analog-to-digital converters and image sensing device including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,519, issued on May 20, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Readout circuit for reducing noise in analog-to-digital converters and image sensing device including the same" was invented by Han Sol Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Shin Hoo Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A readout circuit and an image sensing device including the same are disclosed. The readout circuit includes a ramp signal generator configured to generate a ramp signal having first noise, a sampling circuit configured to generate a pixel sampling signal having second noise by sampling a pixel signal, and a convers...