US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 25 for "Switchable conversion gain image sensor with improved uniformity and methods thereof" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,218, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Switchable conversion gain image sensor with improved uniformity and methods thereof" was invented by Yuanwei Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Sriram Sundarrajah (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Ikuko Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switchable conversion gain image sensor and a method is described. The switchable conversion gain image sensor includes a pixel cell array including a plurality of pixel cells arranged in rows and columns. Individual pixel cells each include one or more photodiodes configured to generate image charge in r...