US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Imaging apparatus with phase contrast detection type of focal point detection" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,964, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus with phase contrast detection type of focal point detection" was invented by Yuichiro Yamashita (Miyagi, Japan), Masahiro Kobayashi (Tokyo), Itsutaku Sano (Tokyo) and Takeshi Kojima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a signal holding unit, first and second control electrodes. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion unit, and an amplification element to amplify signals based on signal charges generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, in which the plurality of pixels outp...