US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Sept. 8 for "Imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,720, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device" was invented by Takashi Moue (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuro Kosaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To implement a single-exposure HDR function with a simple circuit configuration without increasing noise. In one example, an imaging device includes a first comparison circuit that outputs a first signal according to a result of comparison between signal levels of a first input signal and a first reference signal corresponding to a first gain, a second comparison circuit that outputs a second signal according to a...