US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Jan. 27 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,046, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Hirofumi Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Shohei Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Otake (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshifumi Wakano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of achieving both of a high dynamic range operation and an auto focus operation in a pixel configuration in which a plurality of unit pixels includes two or more subpixels. There is provided a sol...