US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Dec. 23 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,976, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kozo Hoshino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus that enable simultaneous acquisition of a signal for generating a high dynamic range image and a signal for detecting a phase difference. The solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixel sets each including color filters of the same color, for a plurality of colors, each pixel set including a plurality of pixels. Each pix...