ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,839, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and TAIWAN SPACE AGENCY (HsinChu, Taiwan).
"Time delay integration sensor with dual gains" was invented by Ren-Chieh Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Chao-Chi Lee (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a time delay integration (TDI) sensor using a rolling shutter. The TDI sensor includes multiple pixel columns. Each pixel column includes multiple pixels arranged in an along-track direction, wherein two adjacent pixels or two adjacent pixel groups in every pixel column have a separation space therebet...