US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Aug. 11 for "Ramp signal generator, image sensor including the same, and operating method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,172, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Ramp signal generator, image sensor including the same, and operating method thereof" was invented by Myeongjin Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea), Mooyoung Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaejung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Haneul Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ramp signal generator includes a clock divider configured to generate a plurality of ramp clocks having different clocks, an output bit selector configured to select an output bit for reading out a pixel signal based on an analog gain of a ramp signal, a r...