US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,842, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus" was invented by Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yu Maehashi (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first photoelectric converter, a first detection circuit that outputs a first detection signal, a first output circuit that outputs a first pixel signal in accordance with the first detection signal, and a first control circuit that controls whether the first detection signal is input into the first output circuit. The ...