ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,896, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Image sensor" was invented by Inyong Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Minkwan Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), In Sung Joe (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhyung Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dhami Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kisang Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a first substrate including a focus pixel region and pixel regions around the focus pixel region, each of the focus pixel region and the pixel regions including at least one photoelectric conversion region, color filters provided o...