US Patent Issued to Canon on April 22 for "Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, movable object, equipment, signal processing device and signal processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,453, issued on April 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, movable object, equipment, signal processing device and signal processing method" was invented by Tomoya Kokado (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroaki Taniguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of columns, a plurality of column circuits provided corresponding to the plurality of columns and each configured to read out a signal acquired by a pixel of the corresponding column, a first processing unit configured to perform an arithmetic pro...