US Patent Issued to CANON on March 31 for "Imaging element, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,145, issued on March 31, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Shinobu Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric conversion unit and a charge holding unit configured to accumulate charges generated in the photoelectric conversion unit, a voltage holding unit configured to hold a voltage signal according to the charges of the charge holding unit, a source follower unit configured to transfer the voltage signal to the voltage holding unit, a current source configured to drive ...