US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment having ad conversion circuits" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,960, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and equipment having ad conversion circuits" was invented by Hiroaki Taniguchi (Tokyo), Yoshiko Shigiya (Tokyo) and Noriyuki Shikina (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first AD conversion circuit and a second AD conversion circuit. A first analog signal group output from a first pixel group in the first scanning is input to the first AD conversion circuit and the second AD conversion circuit. A second analog signal group output from the second pixel group in the second scanning is input to...