US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,762, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device" was invented by Naoki Isoda (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Morimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device includes pixel circuits arranged to form a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and a control circuit for driving the pixel circuits. Each of the pixel circuits includes a signal generation circuit including a photoelectric conversion portion, a memory that holds a signal output from the signal generation circuit, and a sequential circuit i...