US Patent Issued to Canon on Nov. 18 for "Photoelectric conversion device having signal readout circuits and photoelectric conversion system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,855, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device having signal readout circuits and photoelectric conversion system" was invented by Masanori Shibata (Tokyo), Yu Arishima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichiro Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A plurality of photoelectric conversion circuits is disposed on the first substrate. A plurality of floating diffusion circuits, a first switch, and a plurality of amplification transistors are disposed on the second substrate. The plurality of floating di...