US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on April 1 for "Solid-state imaging device and control method of the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,611, issued on April 1, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device and control method of the same" was invented by Toshiaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Yorito Sakano (Kanagawa, Japan) and Masaki Sakakibara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state imaging devices are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array with unit pixels that accumulate charge in a floating diffusion (FD) region. A pixel signal reading circuit reads a pixel signal based on the charge from the FD region of a unit pixel. The pixel signal reading circuit includes...