US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 1 for "Image capturing apparatus and method for controlling the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,738, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus and method for controlling the same" was invented by Kosuke Matsubara (Tokyo), Toshiharu Ueda (Tokyo), Kento Iimori (Tokyo), Toshiyuki Takada (Tokyo), Shohei Tozawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Jun Kameda (Tokyo), Yohei Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Fumihito Karahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a pixel portion, each of pixels including a photoelectric conversion portion, a charge-voltage conversion portion, and an expansion portion configured to expand a capacitance of the charge-voltage conversion por...