US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 1 for "Photoelectric conversion device, movable apparatus, processing method, and storage medium for generating a differential image" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,736, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Photoelectric conversion device, movable apparatus, processing method, and storage medium for generating a differential image" was invented by Junya Yokoyama (Tokyo) and Soya Fujimori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A photoelectric conversion device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure has a plurality of pixels, a control unit, and a generating unit. Each pixel of the plurality of pixels includes a sensor unit that emits a pulse at a frequency corresponding to a photon reception frequency, a first counter and a second counter that count a nu...