US Patent Issued to CANON on June 17 for "Photoelectric conversion device, method of driving photoelectric conversion device, and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,651, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, method of driving photoelectric conversion device, and imaging system" was invented by Shinya Ichino (Tokyo), Takanori Yamashita (Tokyo) and Tomoya Kumagai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device of the disclosure comprises pixels including photoelectric converters generating charge, transistors having nodes receiving signals based on the charge, and transistors supplying reset voltage; and lines along the columns, wherein: in a first period, the node is disconnected from the converter, and signals based on the reset voltage is output...