US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 17 for "Image acquisition apparatus and control method with signal amplification" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,639, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image acquisition apparatus and control method with signal amplification" was invented by Daiki Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan), Kimihiko Fukawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Sakai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuichi Yanagiwara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image acquisition apparatus comprising pixels each including sub-pixels, the apparatus comprising signal holding units for holding signals from the sub-pixels, and a signal processing unit for acquiring and processing each of the signals from the signal holding units, wherein the signal processing unit includes a first mode of ...