US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Sept. 30 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,049, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Kouji Matsuura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an imaging device capable of suppressing, when an analog pixel signal is compared with a predetermined reference signal, an error in inversion timing of the comparison result. The imaging device according to the present disclosure includes: a load current source; a comparator that is provided between a signal line for transmitting an analog pixel signal read from a pixel and the load curre...