ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,200, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing circuit that can be applied to image capturing apparatus" was invented by Shigeyoshi Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing circuit that can be applied to an image capturing apparatus, including a pixel array having photoelectric conversion elements arranged in a matrix, a row selection circuit capable of reading out still image data with a first resolution and LV moving image data with a second resolution lower than the first resolution from the pixel array, an image memory for storing the read still image data and the read LV moving ima...