US Patent Issued to CANON on June 16 for "Photoelectric conversion device, movable apparatus, photoelectric conversion method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,617, issued on June 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, movable apparatus, photoelectric conversion method, and storage medium" was invented by Junya Yokoyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device comprising: a plurality of pixels each of which is configured to include a sensor unit configured to generate pulses corresponding to photons, a counter configured to count the number of the pulses, and a memory configured to stores a count value of the counter; and a control unit configured to generate signals based on count values of the counter counted within an accu...