ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,454, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Kazuki Ohshitanai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Satoshi Kumaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of columns, an output line arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of columns, a signal from a corresponding pixel being output to the output line, and a comparison unit arranged corresponding to each of the plurality of columns and having a first input terminal and a second input terminal. A signal corresponding to a potenti...