US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 17 for "Clipped imaging device, system, and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,832, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Clipped imaging device, system, and method" was invented by Yuuki Hashizume (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masatoshi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A moving object is detected and tracked accurately and a region of interest including the moving object is output at high resolution without increasing power consumption.An imaging device includes: a pixel array unit that has a plurality of pixel circuits and can clip a first pixel region which is a part of an effective pixel region and output pixel data in the first pixel region;...