US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,156, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Fumihito Karahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Matsubara (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Takada (Tokyo), Kento Iimori (Tokyo), Toshiharu Ueda (Tokyo), Yohei Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kameda (Tokyo) and Shohei Tozawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes analog amplification unit for amplifying one pixel signal by a plurality of types of analog gain, digital amplification unit for amplifying the one pixel signal by a plurality of types of digital gain, a...