US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on April 29 for "Image capturing apparatus and drive circuit for image capturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,439, issued on April 29, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Image capturing apparatus and drive circuit for image capturing apparatus" was invented by Kohzoh Takahashi (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An X-ray image capturing apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion element, a TFT, a gate drive circuit, a control circuit, and a filter section. The TFT is connected to the photoelectric conversion element. The gate drive circuit supplies a gate signal to a gate electrode of the TFT. The control circuit supplies a control signal to the gate drive circuit. The filter section attenuates a...