US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on June 23 for "Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,171, issued on June 23, 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 Takao Konishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid-state imaging element in which effective pixels are arranged, image quality of image data is improved. In a pixel array unit, a plurality of effective pixels that is not shaded from light is arranged. A drive unit performs control to drive each of the plurality of effective pixels...