US Patent Issued to Sony Advanced Visual Sensing on Oct. 27 for "Event-based vision sensor with direct memory control" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,267, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Sony Advanced Visual Sensing AG (Schlieren, Switzerland).

"Event-based vision sensor with direct memory control" was invented by Raphael Berner (Confignon, Switzerland), Christian Brandli (Baden, Switzerland) and Massimo Zannoni (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event-based vision sensor system comprises an event-based pixel array including pixels that detect light, a readout circuit for reading out events associated with light received by each pixel and with the position it occupies in the array, and a memory controller that enables writing of each event, or event-related data, associa...