US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on July 28 for "Image sensor and distance measuring sensor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,390, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-Si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and distance measuring sensor" was invented by Jung Wook Lim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distance measuring sensor of an image sensor includes a light emitter configured to output a first optical signal, a pixel array configured to receive a second optical signal caused by reflection of the first optical signal from an object, processing circuitry configured to calculate a distance between the light emitter and the object based on an output of the pixel array, and a variable voltage source, and th...