US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 1 for "Image capturing device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,682, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image capturing device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Takashi Moue (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomonori Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Youhei Oosako (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Umeda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an image capturing device capable of suppressing a decrease of a dynamic range of the entire image capturing device caused by an input transistor of a comparator inserted between a signal line and a load current source in an analog-digital converter.The image capturing devic...