US Patent Issued to Canon on May 19 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,598, issued on May 19, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Hirotaro Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Shunichi Wakashima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a pixel portion in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element are arranged in a matrix, an AD converter arranged corresponding to each pixel column of the pixel portion and configured to convert a pixel signal acquired from the pixels into a digital signal, an addition circuit configured to add pixel signals of different N columns (N being an intege...