US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 9 for "Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,874, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, moving body, and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Yoshiko Shigiya (Tokyo), Noriyuki Shikina (Tokyo) and Atsushi Shimada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device including pixels, a scanning circuit and a controller is provided. The scanning circuit performs a driving operation including a first scan of causing the pixels to start an accumulation operation and a second scan of reading out signals from the pixels. The second scan includ...