US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 20 for "Photoelectric conversion apparatus, method of driving photoelectric conversion apparatus, and equipment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,969, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion apparatus, method of driving photoelectric conversion apparatus, and equipment" was invented by Hideo Kobayashi (Tokyo), Takanori Suzuki (Tokyo) and Kazuhiro Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of driving a photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a pixel, an output line, and a current source, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion element, a floating diffusion region, and a transfer transistor, the method including setting the transfer transistor to an on state to transfer the charge to the floating diffusion region at a...