US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 23 for "Imaging apparatus and signal processing method for handling saturation of split pixel" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,730, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus and signal processing method for handling saturation of split pixel" was invented by Shinichi Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging apparatus including an imaging element that includes photodiode split pixels, the photodiode split pixels each including a first photodiode pixel and a second photodiode pixel, the first photodiode pixel and the second photodiode pixel outputting different pixel signals, respectively, a signal processing section that, in a case where output values of the pixel signals reach saturation value...