US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 24 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,756, issued on March 24, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Hideki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hidetoshi Katayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device capable of suppressing an occurrence of shading in any input image at any shutter timing when the fine shutter is implemented without restriction on the exposure time.The imaging device includes a shutter function capable of performing a shutter operation at a desired timing within one horizontal synchronization period, in which in a pixel layout...