US Patent Issued to Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan on July 7 for "Solid-state imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, and distance-measuring imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,075, issued on July 7, was assigned to Nuvoton Technology Corporation Japan (Kyoto, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, and distance-measuring imaging apparatus" was invented by Makoto Ikuma (Hyogo, Japan) and Yutaka Abe (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel circuit that outputs a pixel signal and a negative feedback circuit. The negative feedback circuit includes a sample and hold circuit (hereinafter "SH circuit") that samples and holds the pixel signal, and a feedback amplifier that negatively feeds back, to the SH circuit, a feedback signal according to...