US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 16 for "Method and apparatus for fixed pattern noise correction using non-conductive state measurements" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,497, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method and apparatus for fixed pattern noise correction using non-conductive state measurements" was invented by Satoshi Kamei (Tokyo) and Katsuro Takenaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiation imaging apparatus including pixels each including a conversion element and a switch element, a signal line to which signals are supplied from the pixels, a readout circuit reading out a signal supplied to the signal line and a processor processing a signal read out by the readout circuit, is provided. The readout circuit performs, during irradiation with radiatio...