ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,873, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Hisashi Takado (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takashi Sugai (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes: pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and a counting unit generating a count value based on incident light to the photoelectric conversion unit; and a calculation unit performing interpolation processing on the count value. Each pixel is controlled to either a first state in which generation of the count value is enabled or a second state in which that is disabled. In a...