US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 11 for "Sensor exposure mode control and sensor exposure mode control method" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,163, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Sensor exposure mode control and sensor exposure mode control method" was invented by Luca Cutrignelli (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control for a time-of-flight sensor, the time-of-flight sensor including a plurality of pixels configured to perform photoelectric conversion, the control comprising circuitry configured to: operate the time-of-flight sensor in a continuous exposure mode in which the plurality of pixels performs photoelectric conversion during a continuous exposure time interval and control read-out of the plurali...