US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Nov. 4 for "Light receiving element, imaging device, and correction processing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,235, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light receiving element, imaging device, and correction processing method" was invented by Masanori Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a light receiving element capable of obtaining a signal with high autofocus performance while suppressing image quality degradation, an imaging device, and a correction processing method. The light receiving element includes a first pixel that includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units that shares a first on-chip lens, receives incident light from a pupil regio...