US Patent Issued to BRILLNICS SINGAPORE on Sept. 16 for "Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,735, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BRILLNICS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Solid-state imaging device, method for driving solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Ken Miyauchi (Tokyo), Isao Takayanagi (Tokyo) and Kazuya Mori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pixel circuit 200 includes a readable pixel 210, a comparator 220, and a selector counter circuit 230. The readable pixel 210 performs photoelectric conversion at a photodiode PD11 and produces a readable signal corresponding to an illuminance condition of incident light. The readable pixel 210 includes an overflow path extending to a...