US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on Sept. 16 for "Imaging apparatus and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,733, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and electronic device" was invented by Tomohiko Shibata (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshikazu Oda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuki Ozawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] An excessive amount of light received by an image sensor is detected with high accuracy without increasing the circuit scale.[Solution] An imaging apparatus includes a pixel, unit including a photoelectric conversion element and a first transistor that outputs a signal photoelectrically converted by the photoelectric conversion element to a sig...