US Patent Issued to CANON on July 21 for "Photoelectric conversion device and signal processing device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,840, issued on July 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and signal processing device" was invented by Tomoya Kokado (Kanagawa, Japan), Noriyuki Shikina (Tokyo), Hiroaki Taniguchi (Tokyo), Keisuke Takahashi (Tokyo) and Momonosuke Odani (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array, a pixel control unit, and a correction value generation unit. The pixel array includes an effective pixel region outputting a signal according to incident light and a correction signal acquisition region outputting a correction signal for black level correction. ...