US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Imaging element and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,891, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element and electronic apparatus" was invented by Ichiro Yamagishi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yasushi Maruyama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging element capable of keeping uniformity of an extinction ratio in a plane, and an electronic apparatus. Provided is a pixel array unit in which a pixel, which includes a polarization member having a polarization direction, and a photoelectric conversion unit configured to receive light transmitted through the polarization member, is dispos...