US Patent Issued to Canon on May 20 for "Imaging apparatus having memory including voltage holding circuits" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,516, issued on May 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus having memory including voltage holding circuits" was invented by Hitoshi Nasu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a pixel and a memory. The pixel includes a photoelectric conversion circuit and a charge/voltage conversion circuit. The memory is arranged so as to correspond to the pixel on a one-on-one basis and includes a plurality of voltage holding circuits each configured to hold a voltage signal output from the pixel. The voltage holding circuits hold respective voltage signals in different accumulation periods in the pi...