ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,717, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to VoxelSensors SRL (Brussels).
"Efficient image sensor" was invented by Ward Van Der Tempel (Keerbergen, Belgium) and Christian Mourad (Genval, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an image sensor (1) for efficient optical sensing. The sensor (1) comprises a plurality of pixel sensors (3), each pixel sensor (3) comprising a photo detector (4), each pixel being adapted to output a digital signal. The sensor (1) further comprises processing means, for example a neural network (5), comprising a plurality of neurons (6). Each photo detector (4) is in the vicinity of...