US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 4 for "Solid-state imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,897, issued on March 4, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, and imaging system" was invented by Misao Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kiyoshige Tsuji (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decrease in image quality is suppressed. A solid-state imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a photoelectric conversion unit (PD) including a material having a smaller band gap energy than silicon; and a circuit board joined to the photoelectric conversion unit, the circuit board including: a pixel signal generation circuit that generates a...