US Patent Issued to CANON on March 11 for "Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, light detection system, and mobile body" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,874, issued on March 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, imaging system, light detection system, and mobile body" was invented by Shogo Yamasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an avalanche photodiode, a pulse generation unit that converts an output from the avalanche photodiode into a pulse signal, a pulse count unit that counts the pulse signal and outputs a pulse count value, a time count unit that outputs a time count value indicating a time from the start of operation of the pulse...