US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Dec. 23 for "Imaging unit and information processing system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,987, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging unit and information processing system" was invented by Takafumi Takatsuka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Ogi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging unit according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a plurality of pixels disposed in a matrix form, and a controller that performs TDI control on the plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a light pulse responder and a counter section. The light pulse responder generates a light pulse in response to incidence of light. The counter section includes a...