US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 24 for "Image sensor including analog-to-digital converter connected to multiplexer and demultiplexer, and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,319, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including analog-to-digital converter connected to multiplexer and demultiplexer, and operation method thereof" was invented by Hyeokjong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Takahiko Inada (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor including "n" analog-to-digital converters (ADCs); a selection circuit that generates a selection signal indicating a target ADC and having k-bit size; an input demultiplexer that generates first to n-th enable signals each having 1-bit size, respectively; and an output multipl...