ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,015, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device and equipment" was invented by Tohru Oyama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a pixel portion that includes a plurality of unit pixels and is configured to detect as an event signal a change in a light intensity of each of the unit pixels, an event readout portion configured to read out the event signal from the pixel portion, an output portion configured to output, regarding at least one region relating to the event signal of the pixel portion, motion information relating to motion of the at least one region, and a det...