US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Dec. 9 for "Imaging device and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,191, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic equipment" was invented by Seichi Otsuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeki Nakamura (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshikuni Nomura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device including a pixel array unit (300) configured by arraying, in a row direction and a column direction, a plurality of pixels (304) of five or more types in which wavelength bands of detectable light are different in stages. The plurality of pixels are arrayed such that, at points having any spatial phases on the pixel array unit...