US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 4 for "Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus having light-shielding portions of different heights" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,842, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and electronic apparatus having light-shielding portions of different heights" was invented by Kazuya Furumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuya Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of acquiring an image with higher image quality. It includes a plurality of pixel units including on-chip lenses, color filters, and photoelectric conversion units. The plurality of pixel units includes a first pixel unit (e.g., a pixel unit of ...