ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,620, issued on June 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Photoelectric conversion device, apparatus, and signal processing method" was invented by Toshiya Kondoh (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jumpei Ashida (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel array including at least one pixel region for which an exposure time is set, the at least one pixel region including a plurality of counting pixels each to output a pixel signal corresponding to a counted value of the number of photons incident during a given exposure time, and a control unit to control the exposure time of the pixel ar...