ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,017, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging device" was invented by Mamoru Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Kato (Tokyo) and Yusuke Oike (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve the image quality of image data in a solid-state imaging device that reads a signal according to a potential difference between respective floating diffusion regions of a pair of pixels.A pixel unit is provided with a plurality of rows each including a plurality of pixels. A readout row selection unit selects any of the plurality of rows as a readout row every time a predet...