US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 25 for "Methods of sensor mode switching in event based sensor and imaging camera for low power application" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,231, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Methods of sensor mode switching in event based sensor and imaging camera for low power application" was invented by Sa Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Kevin Chan (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ping Wah Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels. Pixels are capable of detecting a change in an amount of light intensity and pixels are capable of detecting an amount of light intensity. In a first mode the sensor outputs data from the first one or more of the pixels. In a second mode the sensor outpu...