US Patent Issued to SMARTSENS TECHNOLOGY(HK) on May 19 for "Image sensor with transmission control and control method thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,604, issued on May 19, was assigned to SMARTSENS TECHNOLOGY(HK) Co. Ltd. (HK, China).

"Image sensor with transmission control and control method thereof" was invented by Guang Yang (Shanghai), Shengxin Zhang (Shanghai) and Jing Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor and a control method thereof. The image sensor includes pixel blocks arranged in an array. A photosensitive unit and an overflow unit are coupled to a transmission node, a reset unit and a readout unit are coupled to a floating diffusion node; and a transmission control unit is coupled between the transmission node and the floating diffusion node. Th...