US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 24 for "Analog-to-digital converting circuit for optimizing power consumption of dual conversion gain operation, operation method thereof, and image sensor including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,318, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital converting circuit for optimizing power consumption of dual conversion gain operation, operation method thereof, and image sensor including the same" was invented by Jaehoon Jun (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngwoo Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes a comparator configured to generate a first conversion gain output signal by comparing a first pixel signal corresponding to a first conversion gain with a first ramp signal, and generate a second conversion gain output signal by com...