US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Nov. 25 for "Imaging device, method of controlling imaging device, and shape measuring device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,807, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, method of controlling imaging device, and shape measuring device" was invented by Seijiro Sakane (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes an imaging section in which pixels that photoelectrically convert entering light reflected from a measurement object are arranged, the imaging section detecting that amounts of change in luminance of the pixels have exceeded a predetermined threshold as events, and an event suppression section that removes an event having position informat...