ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,051, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Tomonori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Moue (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinichirou Etou (Kanagawa, Japan) and Youhei Oosako (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to an embodiment includes: photoelectric conversion elements (300) configured to generate a charge according to received light; a pixel circuit configured to read the charge from the photoelectric conversion element and to convert the charge into an analog type pixel signal; and a co...