ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,463, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Masaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan), Koichiro Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan), Yu Arishima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kentaro Tsukida (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes pixels each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements and arranged in a matrix, and a control circuit that controls the pixels on row-by-row. Each pixel may output a first signal corresponding to charge generated by the first photoelectric conversion ele...