ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,170, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Photo voltaic image sensor" was invented by Yoshiyuki Matsunaga (Kyoto, Japan), Mabuchi Keiji (Cupertino, Calif.) and Lindsay Grant (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor is an image sensor including a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes a photodiode configured to generate charges based on a light incident amount, a reset transistor configured to reset the photodiode by supplying a reset voltage to the photodiode, a first capacitor configured to hold an output voltage of the photodiode immediately after ...