US Patent Issued to OmniVision Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Sample and hold readout system and method for ramp analog to digital conversion" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,735, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Sample and hold readout system and method for ramp analog to digital conversion" was invented by Trung Thanh Nguyen (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sample and hold readout system and method for ramp analog to digital conversion is presented in which an optical array is read out using a sample and hold circuit such that each sample is used to charge a sample and hold capacitor and is read out during a hold phase using an amplifier that drives an ramp analog to digital converter. The sample and hold circuit transitions to a track...