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2021
›
Sony
›
Keiji Mabuchi
KM
Keiji Mabuchi
— 7 Patents in 2021
OT
Omnivision Technologies
:
6
patents
#1
of
111
Top 1%
Sony
:
1
patents
#1,329
of
3,148
Top 45%
Cupertino, CA
:
#87
of
1,477
inventors
Top 6%
California
:
#2,240
of
66,859
inventors
Top 4%
Overall
(2021):
#16,426
of
548,734
Top 3%
7
Patents 2021
Issued Patents
2021
Showing
1–7
of
7
patents
Patent #
Title
Co-Inventors
Date
Approx Value ⓘ
11212457
High dynamic range CMOS image sensor design
Tiejun Dai
,
Zhe Gao
2021-12-28
11211421
Sensor comprising gate modulation with inductor to form a resonant circuit
Xianmin Yi
,
Jingming Yao
,
Philip Cizdziel
,
Eric Webster
,
Duli Mao
+7 more
2021-12-28
11196950
Dark current reduction for image sensor having electronic global shutter and image storage capacitors
Sohei Manabe
,
Lindsay Grant
2021-12-07
11095842
Image sensor with electronic global shutter and differential sensing using reset-sampling capacitor shared among multiple image storage capacitors
Sohei Manabe
,
Lindsay Grant
2021-08-17
10986290
Wide dynamic range image sensor with global shutter
Sohei Manabe
2021-04-20
10972687
Image sensor with boosted photodiodes for time of flight measurements
Sohei Manabe
2021-04-06
10911650
Conversion apparatus, imaging apparatus, electronic apparatus, and conversion method
—
2021-02-02
$1,312,000
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