US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on Sept. 30 for "Image sensor and method of operating the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,869, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor and method of operating the same" was invented by Chih-Cheng Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Min-Yang Chiu (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided to operate an image sensor, including the following steps: comparing a first threshold with multiple first frame-difference signals to generate a first region of interest (ROI) address, wherein each of multiple first frame-difference signals is generated by a corresponding pixel, in multiple ...