US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Nov. 18 for "Imaging element, signal processing method for imaging element, and electronic equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,251, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging element, signal processing method for imaging element, and electronic equipment" was invented by Takanori Saeki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element with a pixel array that has pixels each including a photoelectric converting section and an analog-to-digital converting section. The analog-to-digital converting section includes a Gray code latch circuit configured to latch a Gray code corresponding to an analog pixel signal read out from the pixels, a code converter configure...