US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 20 for "Apparatus and method for obtaining image using lens array" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,953, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for obtaining image using lens array" was invented by Soongeun Jang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Woo-Shik Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image obtaining apparatus includes an image sensor including a micro lens and a plurality of neighboring pixels sharing the micro lens and a processor configured to generate, based on an input image received from the image sensor, a plurality of parallax images having a same parallax, group, from among the plurality of parallax images, first parallax images...