US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 14 for "Image sensor with reduced resolution and full resolution" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,257, issued on July 14, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Image sensor with reduced resolution and full resolution" was invented by Tarek Lule (Saint-Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image sensor comprising an array of pixels arranged in first rows and in first columns. The pixels are arranged in groups of N*N pixels, with N an integer equal to or higher than 2. In each group, the pixels of the group are distributed into one or more sub-groups of a plurality of pixels. Each pixel comprises: a photosensitive element, a first node coupled to the photosensi...