US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Aug. 12 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,138, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kouzi Tsukamoto (Fukuoka, Japan) and Hideki Tanaka (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an imaging device and an electronic apparatus that can be made smaller in size, are capable of high-speed reading, and do not cause degradation of a captured image.The imaging device includes: a pixel that outputs a photoelectric conversion signal corresponding to an incident light quantity; and a comparator that compares the photoelectric conversion signal...