US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 24 for "Flexible computational image sensor with compressive sensing capability" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,764, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Flexible computational image sensor with compressive sensing capability" was invented by Yibing Michelle Wang (Temple City, Calif.), Chunji Wang (Pasadena, Calif.), Yanhai Ren (Pasadena, Calif.), Tze-Ching Fung (Diamond Bar, Calif.) and Duhyun Lee (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for imaging a scene. The method includes generating a shutter pattern and applying the shutter pattern to a photodetector array. The system includes a sensor architecture in three dimensions, where eleme...