US Patent Issued to Canon on June 9 for "Semiconductor apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and moving object" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,457, issued on June 9, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Semiconductor apparatus, image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and moving object" was invented by Kei Ochiai (Inagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor device that performs signal processing, a driving control unit that controls drive of the semiconductor device, and a lifetime obtaining unit that obtains remaining lifetime information that represents a remaining lifetime of the semiconductor device. In a case where the remaining lifetime information represents a first length, the driving control unit drives th...