ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,000, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device, imaging device, processing method in solid-state imaging device, and processing method in imaging device" was invented by Takayoshi Ozone (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsutomu Haruta (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshinobu Sugiyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichi Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging device that includes a plurality of pixels and an arithmetic section. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion section (SP) that generates a charge according to t...