ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,547, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Dynamic vision sensor imaging device" was invented by Kazutoshi Kodama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an imaging device capable of outputting a signal other than an event detection signal, such as a pixel signal at a gradation level. The imaging device has a stacked chip structure formed by stacking at least two semiconductor chips including a first-layer semiconductor chip and a second-layer semiconductor chip. The first-layer semiconductor chip has a pixel array unit in which an event pixel that outp...