US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 26 for "Photoelectric conversion device, driving method for photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,919, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, driving method for photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus" was invented by Koichiro Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Arishima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a photoelectric conversion device, in a first period in which a respective different offset voltage is supplied to a comparator included in each of a plurality of AD conversion circuits, a control unit performs control to bring the offset voltage into a first driving state in which a voltage change amount per unit time of the offse...