US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on April 22 for "Imaging device and distance measurement system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,456, issued on April 22, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and distance measurement system" was invented by Keishi Kumata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device capable of suppressing a decrease in a frame rate while improving charge transfer efficiency. An imaging device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion element; a signal converter that is boosted when charge transferred from the photoelectric conversion element is converted into a pixel signal; a selection transistor that interrupts a sig...