ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,161, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Sensor device and reading method" was invented by Futa Mochizuki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device according to the present technology includes: a pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixel units each having one or a plurality of pixels and capable of generating a gradation signal indicating intensity of a light reception amount and an event signal indicating a change in the light reception amount is two-dimensionally arranged; and a row control unit that can sequentially execute in rows selection of a pixe...