US Patent Issued to Canon on July 29 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,836, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method" was invented by Keita Masuda (Tokyo), Atsushi Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasuhiro Kato (Tokyo), Keisuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Takeshi Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel array having a plurality of column signal lines which are divided into a plurality of groups, a readout circuit configured to read out signals from the pixel array via the plurality of column signal lines. A holding unit includes ...