US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on May 13 for "Analog-to-digital conversion circuit, solid-state image sensor, and method for controlling analog-to-digital conversion circuit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,022, issued on May 13, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Analog-to-digital conversion circuit, solid-state image sensor, and method for controlling analog-to-digital conversion circuit" was invented by Yuki Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiromu Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power consumption is reduced in an analog-to-digital conversion circuit using a TDC. The analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes a comparator, a counter, a time-to-digital converter, and a holding unit. The comparator compares an analog signal with a predetermined refe...