US Patent Issued to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION on March 17 for "Image sensor appropriate for multiple shooting modes, camera module, electronic device, and shooting method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,756, issued on March 17, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Image sensor appropriate for multiple shooting modes, camera module, electronic device, and shooting method" was invented by Peirui Lu (Dongguan, China) and Ziyu Wang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes a pixel array, and the pixel array includes a first number of first pixel units and a second number of second pixel units, where the first pixel unit includes photosensitive elements stacked and configured to acquire photo signals of at least two colors. The second pixel unit includes photosensitive ele...