US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 24 for "Image sensor including an auto focusing (AF) pixel" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,760, issued on March 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor including an auto focusing (AF) pixel" was invented by Eun Sub Shim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes; a pixel array including at an auto focusing (AF) pixel and an AF adjacent pixel, which is adjacent to the AF pixel and is configured to share a floating diffusion region with the AF pixel; and a row driver configured to control the pixel array, wherein a first end of a photo diode included in the AF pixel is connected to a first transmission transistor, and a second end of the pho...