US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Imaging element, imaging device, monitoring device, and method for controlling imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,180, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element, imaging device, monitoring device, and method for controlling imaging element" was invented by Atsushi Kandori (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Onishi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element having a plurality of pixels, wherein the plurality of pixels have stored charge reset periodically, at least in some of the plurality of pixels, first readout processing in which stored charge by first exposure is read out is performed, first signal processing based on a first pixel signal read out by the first readout processing is performed, whet...