ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,264, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Yojiro Tezuka (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoki Hirata (Tokyo) and Shiro Tsunai (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an image capturing device including a first substrate having a plurality of pixel blocks each including one or more pixels; and a second substrate having a control circuit unit including a first control block including a first exposure control unit for controlling an exposure time of a pixel included in a first pixel block of the plurality of pixel blocks and a second control block including a ...