US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method for controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,728, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, control method for controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Aihiko Numata (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a processing circuit, and a memory that stores a computer-readable instruction for causing, when executed by the processing circuit, the photoelectric conversion apparatus to generate control signals for controlling an operation of an image capturing unit configured to perform image capturing using avalanche light emission, control a first generation unit to genera...