US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Jan. 27 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus with multiple charge storage regions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,044, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus with multiple charge storage regions" was invented by Tetsuya Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan), Shinji Miyazawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takeshi Ishizaki (Tokyo), Hirosato Shintaku (Yamagata, Japan) and Hiroshi Horikoshi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an imaging device and an electronic apparatus each capable of expanding a dynamic range without lowering a saturation charge quantity of a photodiode. There are provided a photoelectric conversion unit that converts l...