US Patent Issued to Sony Group on April 14 for "Sensor device and encryption method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,019, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor device and encryption method" was invented by Susumu Takatsuka (Tokyo), Kenta Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Tetsukawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To achieve an improvement in security in encryption of an image signal obtained through imaging by an array sensor.A sensor device includes: an array sensor in which a plurality of pixels including light-receiving elements for visible light or invisible light are arrayed 1-dimensionally or 2-dimensionally; and an encryption unit configured to encrypt a read signal from the pixels of the a...