ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,086, issued on June 24, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Katsuhiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes a pixel array section including a plurality of dynamic vision sensor (DVS) pixels that outputs a luminance signal according to a light amount, and a detection circuit section that is disposed outside the pixel array section and outputs a detection signal indicating occurrence of an address event in a case where the luminance signal of each of the plurality of DVS pixels exceeds a pr...