US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 4 for "Single exposure high dynamic range (HDR) analog front-end for CMOS image sensors" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,276, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Single exposure high dynamic range (HDR) analog front-end for CMOS image sensors" was invented by Eric Bohannon (Henrietta, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single exposure high dynamic range (HDR) analog front-end (AFE) for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors. In one embodiment, a single exposure HDR AFE includes input signal circuitry, gain stage circuitry, a continuous-time filter, comparator circuitry, and counter circuitry. The input signal circuitry is configured to generate an input signal. The gain stage ...