ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,344, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state image sensor" was invented by Koya Tsuchimoto (Nagasaki, Japan), Shin Kitano (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Murakawa (Nagasaki, Japan), Makoto Nakamura (Nagasaki, Japan), Takuya Hanada (Nagasaki, Japan) and Yuki Noda (Nagasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor according to the present disclosure includes a photodiode, a conversion circuit (current-voltage conversion circuit), a luminance change detection circuit (comparator), and a light-shielding unit (light-shielding film). The photodiode photoelectri...