US Patent Issued to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 20 for "Hybrid imaging sensor with high sampling point distribution" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,964, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to OMNIVISION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid imaging sensor with high sampling point distribution" was invented by Andreas Suess (San Jose, Calif.), Sangjoo Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Bo Mu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit includes a pixel array and a color filter. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels each comprising two photodiodes, a floating diffusion coupled between the two photodiodes, and two transfer transistor coupled between the two photodiodes and the floating diffusion. The color filter array includes a plurality of color filt...