US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 24 for "Imaging device, imaging system, moving body, and instrument" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,315, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, imaging system, moving body, and instrument" was invented by Hisashi Takado (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a photoelectric device in which a plurality of pixels containing a photoelectric element including an avalanche photodiode are arranged in a two-dimensional array, and a processor that processes output signals of the plurality of pixels. The plurality of pixels includes a first pixel unit having imaging pixels, and a second pixel unit having at least one set of pixels including an aperture pixel and light shie...