US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Oct. 21 for "Image capturing apparatus and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,561, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Image capturing apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Haruhisa Naganokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image capturing that suppresses a drop in numerical aperture and achieves a smaller size is disclosed. In one example, an image capturing apparatus includes pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit, a floating diffusion that outputs a voltage according to a charge obtained from photoelectric conversion by the photoelectric conversion unit, and a current amplification unit that...