US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Image sensor having high dynamic range" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,157, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor having high dynamic range" was invented by Heesung Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaekyu Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungsik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Ingyu Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor according to some example embodiments of the present inventive concepts may operate in a global shutter mode, and each pixel circuit may support a high conversion gain (HCG) mode and a low conversion gain (LCG) mode so as to have high dynamic range (HDR). Accordingly, the image sensor acc...