US Patent Issued to NIKON on May 12 for "Imaging element having pixels, signal lines, and comparison units" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,903, issued on May 12, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element having pixels, signal lines, and comparison units" was invented by Shigeru Matsumoto (Sagamihara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a first photoelectric conversion unit and a second photoelectric conversion unit that generates electric charges by photoelectric conversion, a first comparison unit that outputs a first signal based on a result of comparing a signal based on electric charges generated by the first photoelectric conversion unit and a reference signal, a first storage unit that stores a signal based on the first sign...