ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,094, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Kouji Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a solid-state imaging element capable of performing AD conversion on pixel signals in a wide dynamic range in a short time.A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a pixel section including photoelectric conversion elements that photoelectrically convert incident light into pixel signals; an AD conversion section that converts the pixel signals from the pixel section into digital sig...