US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on July 1 for "Imaging device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,681, issued on July 1, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device and control method" was invented by Kazuko Nishimura (Kyoto, Japan), Yuya Ito (Kyoto, Japan) and Yasuo Miyake (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix, the plurality of pixels respectively including photoelectric converters that convert light into signal charge and charge accumulators that accumulate the signal charge; and a control circuit. The control circuit causes pixels included in the plurality of pixels and belonging to at least one r...