US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 8 for "Imaging device and imaging method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,090, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Kazutoshi Kodama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is no possibility of causing a useless event.An imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion unit including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements that performs photoelectric conversion to generate an electrical signal; a setting unit that sets a threshold value according to a noise level of a predetermined area of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and a first detection unit that detects ...