ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,953, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Atsushi Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Takahiro Miura (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshinori Muramatsu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shizunori Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device with low noise and a high dynamic range.An imaging device includes: a conversion unit that converts an incident electromagnetic wave into a charge; a first capacitor that accumulates the charge when a voltage corresponding to the charge is equal to or lower than a predetermined threshold; a second capacit...