ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,050, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takanori Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yuji Nakajima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises a pixel region where pixels are arranged in a matrix, a sample hold circuit configured to sample and hold, as a first signal and a second signal, two different signals output from each of two pixels in the pixel region, and an analog-digital conversion circuit configured to perform analog-digital conversion of the second signals from the two pixels after performing analog-d...