US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Photoelectric conversion device, camera module, endoscope, endoscope system, and apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,027, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, camera module, endoscope, endoscope system, and apparatus" was invented by Kazunori Matsuyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Noriyuki Shikina (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device is provided. The device includes a pixel array in which pixels are arranged, a drive controller configured to drive the pixel array, a horizontal transfer unit configured to sequentially output analog signals respectively output from columns of the pixel array, an AD converter configured to convert an analog signal output from the horizonta...