US Patent Issued to NIKON on Aug. 25 for "Image sensor and image-capturing apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,901, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Image sensor and image-capturing apparatus" 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 substrates that are laminated on each other. The plurality of substrates includes: a first photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts light to an electric charge, and a first conversion unit that converts a first signal that is based on the electric charge converted by the first photoelectric conversion unit into a digital signal. The first conversion unit is configured by a circuit arrang...