ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,845, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device and light detection system" was invented by Hisashi Takado (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, a counting unit configured to hold a count value in a predetermined number of bits, and a switching unit configured to switch information output from the counting unit to first information including information of an upper bit or second information including information of the upper bit and another bit among the predetermined ...