US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on May 13 for "Highly efficient active illumination imaging systems and methods" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,946, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Highly efficient active illumination imaging systems and methods" was invented by Victor A. Lenchenkov (Victor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor methods and systems incorporating an integrated illumination or light source are provided. The sensor can include a plurality of pixels and the integrated light source. The sensor can additionally include or be associated with imaging optics. The light source operates to generate illumination light that is passed through the imaging optics towards a scene within a field of view of the sens...