US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on July 22 for "Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,979, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" was invented by LuongHung Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve image quality in a solid-state imaging element that simultaneously performs exposure in all pixels.Arranged in a pre-stage circuit are a pair of floating diffusion layers that converts transferred charges into a voltage, and a conversion efficiency control transistor that controls conversion efficiency with which the charges are converted into voltag...