US Patent Issued to Canon on July 8 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,102, issued on July 8, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, photoelectric conversion system, and photoelectric conversion method" was invented by Keisuke Takahashi (Tokyo), Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Atsushi Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Photoelectric conversion apparatus includes pixel array having effective pixel, a readout circuit configured to read out signal of the pixel array, and signal processing unit configured to perform correlated double sampling process and correction process on signals read out from the effective pixel by the readout circuit. The readout circu...