US Patent Issued to CANON on June 10 for "Image pickup device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,520, issued on June 10, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup device" was invented by Hirokazu Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup device includes a plurality of pixels each provided with a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions and outputting a first voltage signal based on a charge of at least one photoelectric conversion portion of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions and a second voltage signal based on a combined charge of charges of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and a plurality of holding circuits provided in a one-to-one relationship with the p...