US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 27 for "Imaging device and method of driving imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,270, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and method of driving imaging device" was invented by Tatsuhito Goden (Tokyo) and Takanori Watanabe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an imaging device, in a first mode, an analog-to-digital conversion unit performs analog-to-digital conversion on pixel signals from a first output line and a second output line to generate first pixel data and second pixel data, respectively, a first memory stores the first pixel data, a second memory stores the second pixel data, and the scanning circuit causes the first memory to output the first pixel data ...