US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 16 for "Image sensor capable of adding pixel signals, control method thereof, and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,737, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor capable of adding pixel signals, control method thereof, and electronic apparatus" was invented by Hideta Nishizawa (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Nasu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor comprises: a plurality of sample-and-hold circuits that sample and hold a plurality of signals input from a plurality of different pixels; a plurality of converters that convert the signals held in the plurality of sample-and-hold circuits to currents corresponding to potentials of the signals, respectively; a switch that connects/disconnects the plurality of converte...