ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,469, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup element and image pickup device" was invented by Shiro Tsunai (Kawasaki, Japan) and Hironobu Murata (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes: an imaging unit in which a plurality of pixel groups including a plurality of pixels that output pixel signals according to incident light are formed, and on which incident light corresponding to mutually different pieces of image information is incident; a control unit that controls, for each of the pixel groups, a period of accumulating in the plurality of pixels included in the pix...