US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Oct. 7 for "Asynchronous integration in rolling shutter image sensors" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,164, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Asynchronous integration in rolling shutter image sensors" was invented by Jeffrey M. Raynor (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method for capturing an image frame using a pixel array of an image sensor is provided. The method includes sequentially resetting each pixel row of the pixel array; sequentially reading out each pixel row of a first subset of pixel rows during a readout phase such that an integration time for each pixel of the first subset of pixel rows is equal to a fixed integration ti...