ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,555, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Solid-state imaging element" was invented by Ryo Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Image quality is improved by a solid-state imaging element that performs exposure at the same time with all pixels. A previous-stage circuit generates a predetermined reset level and a signal level in accordance with the amount of exposure in order and causes each of first and second capacitance elements to hold the predetermined reset level and the signal level. A selection circuit performs control of connecting one of the first and seco...