US Patent Issued to Canon on June 30 for "Photoelectric conversion device and electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,369, issued on June 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and electronic device" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device capable of operations corresponding to the amplitude of a signal read out to a vertical signal line is disclosed. The device comprises a pixel that generates a signal via photoelectric conversion and a determination circuit that determines an amplitude of a signal read out from the pixel to a vertical signal line. A reset signal and a data signal are read out from the pixel. The determination circuit performs a first ...