US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 31 for "Solid state imaging element, imaging device, and solid state imaging element control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,144, issued on March 31, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid state imaging element, imaging device, and solid state imaging element control method" was invented by Katsuhiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kohei Matsuda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a solid state imaging element in which signal processing is performed on a pair of pixel signals, the circuit scale thereof is reduced. The solid state imaging element includes a pixel array section, a vertical scanning circuit, and a signal processing circuit. A plurality of pixels are arranged in directions of rows and directi...