ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,993, issued on May 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion apparatus" was invented by Masanori Ogura (Tokyo), Takuya Hara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Miyamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprising: a pixel array; a signal line; a processing circuit; a switch for controlling conduction between the signal line and an input node of the processing circuit; and a control unit. The control unit performs a first transition in which, after resetting of the processing circuit, the switch is transitioned to an OFF state and then, during a period after the floating dif...