US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,462, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and moving body" was invented by Takuya Hara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masanori Ogura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and an offset adding circuit. The first pixel includes a first avalanche photodiode and a first count circuit. The first count circuit is configured to count a first signal that is based on the number of photons that have entered the first avalanche photodiode. The second pixel includes a second avalanche photodi...