US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Image sensor for sensing LED light with reduced flickering" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,716, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Image sensor for sensing LED light with reduced flickering" was invented by Yun-Wei Cheng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chun-Hao Chou (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kuo-Cheng Lee (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Hsin-Chi Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor device has a first number of first pixels disposed in a substrate and a second number of second pixels disposed in the substrate. The first number is substantially equal to the second number. A light-blocking structure disposed over the first pixels and the second ...