US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on March 31 for "Image sensor supporting AF function and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,125, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Image sensor supporting AF function and method of operating the same" 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 first pixel group, a second pixel group arranged in a same column and row as the first pixel group, a first analog-to-digital converter and a second analog-to-digital converter corresponding to the first pixel group and the second pixel group, respectively and configured to process pixel signals output from the first pixel group and the second pixel group, an...