US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 25 for "Image sensor and electronic camera" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,219, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor and electronic camera" was invented by Shigeru Matsumoto (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor, includes: a plurality of pixels arranged along both of a first direction and a second direction different from the first direction, each having a photoelectric conversion unit that generates an electric charge through photoelectric conversion of light; a plurality of signal lines disposed along the second direction, each connected to a plurality of pixels arranged along the first direction; and a control unit that executes control so as t...