US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN on Oct. 20 for "Imaging device and image sensor comprising impedance converter connected between pixels and ad converter in each column" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,966, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION JAPAN (Kyoto, Japan).

"Imaging device and image sensor comprising impedance converter connected between pixels and ad converter in each column" was invented by Takayasu Kito (Hyogo, Japan), Yutaka Abe (Osaka, Japan) and Makoto Ikuma (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image sensor includes: a pixel array in which pixels are arranged in a matrix; impedance converter circuits for each column, each of which receives a pixel signal from at least one pixel; and an AD converter for each column that converts from analog to digital signals output from the impe...