ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,484, issued on March 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Photodetection device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Masako Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Parit Kanjanavirojkul (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photodetection device of the present disclosure includes: multiple AD converters provided for respective pixel columns of multiple pixels and performing AD conversion on a pixel signal based on a second output signal, and including a comparison circuit, which includes a first-stage amplifier circuit outputting a first output signal corresponding to a comparison operat...