ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,800, issued on May 6, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Hiroki Suto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a solid-state imaging element capable of thinning out the number of operations of AD conversion units while suppressing an influence of a noise component on the AD conversion units of other columns. A solid-state imaging element according to the present embodiment includes: a plurality of comparators that is provided corresponding to a plurality of pixel columns each including an array of a plurality of pixels that photoelectri...