US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Feb. 17 for "Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,834, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" was invented by Yoshimitsu Shiotani (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Mikami (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yukiyasu Tatsuzawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve image quality in a solid-state imaging element that performs synthesis processing to expand a dynamic range. A drive section causes each of first pixels and each of second pixels to be exposed over different exposure times in a case where a predetermined exposure ratio mode i...