US Patent Issued to Japan Display on Sept. 8 for "TFT optical sensor apparatus and system with enhanced dynamic range" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,269, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"TFT optical sensor apparatus and system with enhanced dynamic range" was invented by Xingle Wang (Tokyo), Chungkai Chen (San Jose, Calif.) and Naoki Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensor system includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) optical panel including an array of TFT pixels, a charge amplifier configured to temporarily store a charge received from a TFT pixel in the array of TFT pixels and generate a voltage based on the temporarily stored charge, an analog-to-digital converter to generate a digitized value based on the voltage, an accum...