US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Oct. 20 for "Image sensor having pixel clusters each including an event processing circuit" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,957, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image sensor having pixel clusters each including an event processing circuit" was invented by Massimo Zannoni (Stuttgart, Germany), Koji Ogawa (Stuttgart, Germany), Raphael Berner (Stuttgart, Germany) and Eshar Ben Dor (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a plurality of pixel clusters, wherein each pixel cluster includes a number L of pixel circuits. Each pixel circuit outputs pixel event information, wherein the pixel event information indicates whether or not a change of radiation intensity received...