US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 31 for "Imaging apparatus and imaging method for generating signature data based on compressed image data" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,059, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and imaging method for generating signature data based on compressed image data" was invented by Kumiko Mahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a pixel array unit (101) including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix array, each of the pixels generating a pixel signal corresponding to light received by exposure, the pixel array unit acquiring image data based on each of the pixel signals respectively generated by the plurality of pixels, a compr...