US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 11 for "Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,164, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Shinya Ichino (Saitama, Japan), Takanori Suzuki (Tokyo) and Satoshi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes pixels arranged to form rows and columns, an output line group arranged for each column and including first and second output lines, a pixel control unit that controls readout of signals from the pixels in units of rows, and an amplitude limiting unit that limits ranges of signal amplitudes of the output line gr...