US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 2 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method thereof, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,998, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method thereof, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Shigeharu Aoki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus having a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element and a plurality of first holding portions, comprises a control unit that controls a charge accumulation period in the photoelectric conversion elements in units of predetermined minimum controllable period, and a setting unit that sets a charge accumulation period in one frame pe...