US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 7 for "Sensing device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,183, issued on April 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Sensing device and electronic device" was invented by Akihiko Miyanohara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroki Hiyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a sensing device that generates a distance image, a variation in distance measurement accuracy in the distance image is reduced. The sensing device includes a predetermined number of pixel circuits and a voltage control unit. Each of the predetermined number of pixel circuits includes a photoelectric conversion element and a detection circuit. A predetermined reverse bias voltage is ...