US Patent Issued to CANON on June 2 for "Photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,699, issued on June 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Satoshi Omodani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes: a light receiving unit configured to generate a light reception signal according to incident light by photoelectric conversion; a time-to-digital conversion unit configured to perform a time-to-digital conversion in which an operation of outputting a time count value indicating an elapsed time from light emission of a light source device to input of the light reception signal is periodically performed every time a predetermined per...