US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, movable object and equipment" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,175, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion system, movable object and equipment" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit and an amplification unit configured to amplifies a signal based on charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit, an output line connected to the plurality of pixels, an interconnection disposed adjacent to the output line, and a current source circuit connected to the output line and confi...