ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,188, issued on April 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus and system" was invented by Tsuyoshi Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Taya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Kawanabe (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including a conversion element, and a shielding layer covering the conversion element, wherein the shielding layer is provided to cover at least a part of an aperture of the conversion element so that an aperture modulated transfer function (MTF) at a predetermined frequency of a signal obtained from the conversion element becomes less than or equal to a pr...