US Patent Issued to HITACHI ASTEMO on April 21 for "Stereo camera apparatus and method for generating a parallax image from low sensitivity and high sensitivity sub-pixel array" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,032, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI ASTEMO LTD. (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Stereo camera apparatus and method for generating a parallax image from low sensitivity and high sensitivity sub-pixel array" was invented by Koichi Sakita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus has a plurality of cameras, each including: an imaging device in which unit pixels are periodically arranged, the unit pixels including high sensitivity sub-pixels that output a first output value for a certain exposure amount and low sensitivity sub-pixels that output a second output value lower than the first output value for a certain expos...