US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 20 for "Signal processing method, signal processing circuit, photoelectric conversion apparatus, and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,093, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing method, signal processing circuit, photoelectric conversion apparatus, and equipment" was invented by Hiroo Akabori (Kanagawa, Japan), Takanori Yamashita (Tokyo) and Kazuo Yamazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing method for converting analog signals to digital signals of different bit numbers using a sloped ramp signal includes first A/D conversion for converting an analog signal to a digital signal of a first bit number using a first ramp signal with a first slope or converting the analog signal to the digital signal of...