US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,266, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Kento Iimori (Tokyo) and Isao Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a pixel portion in which a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in a matrix, at least three sample-hold circuits, a voltage-current conversion portion configured to output a difference between two sample-hold circuits as a current signal, an AD converter configured to convert an output signal of the voltage-...