US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) on Jan. 28 for "Pixel circuit and method of operating the same in an always-on mode" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,881, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Marlow, Great Britain).

"Pixel circuit and method of operating the same in an always-on mode" was invented by Neale Dutton (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a sensor array with a number of pixels. In an embodiment, the imaging device can be operated by capturing a first low-spatial resolution frame using a subset of pixels of the sensor array and then capturing a second low-spatial resolution frame using the same subset of pixels of the sensor array. A first depth map is generated using raw pixel...