ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,091, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Aihiko Numata (Tokyo) and Kan Takaiwa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises a photoelectric conversion element including an avalanche photodiode for photoelectrically converting an optical image; an image generating unit configured to generate a first image based on a signal that has been acquired by the photoelectric conversion element; an acquisition unit configured to acquire first characteristic information of the photoelectric conversio...