US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,258, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and equipment" was invented by Takayuki Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises a pixel region having a plurality of pixels configured to generate and output event signals upon detecting a variation in quantity of incident light and a readout circuit configured to read out the event signals output from the pixel region. The readout circuit counts the number of the event signals read out from the pixel region, and when the number of the counted event signals exceeds a pr...