ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,504, issued on May 20, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Kyoji Yokoyama (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryoji Eki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device (1) according to the present disclosure includes an imaging unit (2), a data acquisition unit (3), a clock generation unit (4), and a control unit (5). The imaging unit (2) captures an image, and generates image data. The data acquisition unit (3) acquires clock data related to an operation clock shared with other imaging devices. The clock generation unit (4) generates the operat...