US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus having divergence optical circuit, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,595, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus having divergence optical circuit, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body" was invented by Yasushi Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masahiro Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a plurality of pixels each including a first photoelectric conversion circuit, a second photoelectric conversion circuit, and a divergence optical circuit for diverging incident light. The divergence optical circuit is disposed on a semiconductor substrate where the first photoelectric conversion circui...