US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,269, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus and device" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Masaki Sato (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel including a conversion unit configured to accumulate a charge based on incident light, the pixel being configured to output a photoelectric conversion signal based on the accumulated charge, a sample-and-hold unit configured to sample and hold a first photoelectric conversion signal and a second photoelectric conversion signal output from the pixel, and an oversampling con...