US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Imaging system, movable apparatus, imaging method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,267, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, movable apparatus, imaging method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshikazu Ishikawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Soya Fujimori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes a plurality of pixels each including a sensor unit configured to output pulses corresponding to photons and a counter configured to count the number of pulses. The imaging system generates a signal on the basis of a difference between count values of the counter when a storage period starts and when the storage period ends, performs storage operations of a firs...