US Patent Issued to Canon on March 4 for "Imaging apparatus, and imaging system having a plurality of pixels for outputting a signal based on a generated signal charge" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,948, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, and imaging system having a plurality of pixels for outputting a signal based on a generated signal charge" was invented by Seiji Hashimoto (Yokohama, Japan), Atsushi Furubayashi (Kawasaki, Japan), Takeru Suzuki (Kawasaki, Japan), Kazuhiro Sonoda (Kawasaki, Japan), Daisuke Yoshida (Ebina, Japan), Hirofumi Totsuka (Fujisawa, Japan), Takashi Muto (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yasushi Matsuno (Fujisawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixels output a first signal based on signal charge of a part of photoelectric conversion units of multiple photoelectric conver...