ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,403, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Hybrid image and event sensing with rolling shutter compensation" was invented by Andreas Aumiller (Stuttgart, Germany), Yupeng Zhao (Stuttgart, Germany) and Kensei Jo (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device includes multiple pixels that receive light and perform photoelectric conversion to generate electrical signals. It has event detection circuitry that detects intensity changes above a threshold in a subset of pixels (event-detecting pixels) and generates event data. Another subset of pixels (intensity-detecti...