US Patent Issued to Varjo Technologies on June 10 for "Selective reading and skipping in colour filter arrays" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,522, issued on June 10, was assigned to Varjo Technologies Oy (Helsinki).

"Selective reading and skipping in colour filter arrays" was invented by Mikko Ollila (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor has photo-sensitive cells arranged on a photo-sensitive surface; and a colour filter array with first type(s) of colour filters, second type(s) of colour filters, third type(s) of colour filters, and fourth type(s) of colour filters. Information indicative of a gaze direction is obtained. A gaze region and a peripheral region in the photo-sensitive surface are determined. Image data from the image sensor is read ...