ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,402, issued on April 7.
"Partial pixel oversampling for high dynamic range imaging" was invented by Roger A Panicacci (Los Gatos, Calif.), Ashirwad Bahukhandi (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Andrew Kenneth John McMahon (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a pixel-circuit and a readout circuit. The pixel-circuit includes a photodetector. The readout circuit is configured to perform a series of iterations, each iteration including (i) accumulating an electrical charge in the photodetector during an integration time, (ii) transferring a portion of the electrical charge accumulated in the photodetector ...