ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,150, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Tomonaga Iwahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a pixel portion in which pixels, first and second sample-hold circuits that are two sample-hold circuits arranged with respect to pixel signals output from one pixel, a voltage-current conversion circuit configured to output a difference between the first and second sample-hold circuits, as a current signal, an AD converter configured to convert an output signal of the voltage-current ...