US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Feb. 24 for "Image sensor and method of performing autofocus operation" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,292, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Image sensor and method of performing autofocus operation" was invented by Jae Hwan Jeon (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ja Min Koo (Icheon-si, South Korea), Ji Su Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Tae Hyun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Jong Hyun Bae (Icheon-si, South Korea) and Woo Young Jeong (Icheon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes an image generator including pixels and configured to generate image data having pixel values corresponding to the pixels, and a focus manager configured to generate a first phase detection imag...