US Patent Issued to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Feb. 17 for "Bio-inspired imaging device with in-sensor visual adaptation" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,410, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).

"Bio-inspired imaging device with in-sensor visual adaptation" was invented by Yang Chai (Hong Kong) and Fuyou Liao (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bio-inspired imaging device mimicking visual adaptation of human vision provides a large dynamic range in imaging an image. The device employs a neuromorphic vision sensor realized with phototransistors each being a field-effect transistor, a channel layer of which is an atomically-thin layer of two-dimensional semiconductor material. The channel layer is intentionally formed with defects...