US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 7 for "Imaging device, sensor chip, and processing circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,389, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device, sensor chip, and processing circuit" was invented by Akihiro Miyazawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kouichi Mazeno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an imaging device, a sensor chip, and a processing circuit capable of more suitably acquiring a high-quality image.The sensor chip includes a pixel array unit enabling simultaneous output of a full-angle-of-view image of one frame and region images of a plurality of frames by reading pixel signals of an entire pixel region at a first frame...