US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 7 for "Solid imaging device, electronic device, and method of controlling solid imaging device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,401, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid imaging device, electronic device, and method of controlling solid imaging device" was invented by Tsuyoshi Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost increase is controlled. A solid imaging device according to an embodiment includes: an imaging section (101) that obtains first image data including four or more colors; and a converting section (104) that reduces the number of colors of the first image data obtained by the imaging section and generates second image data having a smaller number of colors than the first image ...