US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 23 for "Image pickup apparatus in which global shutter driving of image pickup device is performed" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,751, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus in which global shutter driving of image pickup device is performed" was invented by Yusuke Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus in which noise caused by global shutter driving of an image pickup device can be suppressed. The image pickup apparatus comprises an image pickup device including pixels each including a photoelectric conversion part that generates a charge by photoelectric conversion and charge storage parts that are connected to the photoelectric conversion part and store a charge transferre...