US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Image sensor including imaging pixels and autofocusing pixels and electronic apparatus including the image sensor" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,109, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including imaging pixels and autofocusing pixels and electronic apparatus including the image sensor" was invented by Sookyoung Roh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seokho Yun (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of autofocusing pixels, and a lens array including a plurality of micro lenses facing the plurality of imaging pixels, respectively, and one or more super lenses f...