US Patent Issued to KIOXIA on Oct. 20 for "Image capturing device and image generation method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,109, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KIOXIA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing device and image generation method" was invented by Takeshi Yamane (Tsukuba Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing device includes a stage holding a subject; a detector including a first pixel layer, a second pixel layer, and a third pixel layer stacked on top of one another, with an insulating film interposed adjacent ones of the first to third pixel layers; an image formation optical member configured to form, on the detector, an image based on imaging light transmitted through the subject; and an image processor configured to r...