US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Feb. 17 for "EBS/ToF/RGB camera for smart surveillance and intruder detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,017, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"EBS/ToF/RGB camera for smart surveillance and intruder detection" was invented by Kevin Chan (Milpitas, Calif.), Ping Wah Wong (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sa Xiao (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system with a plurality of sensors or sensor functions is provided. The sensors can include an event detection sensor, a time of flight sensor, and imaging sensor. The different sensors can be implemented on the same or different substrates. Accordingly, sensors with pixels having different or shared functions can be included i...