US Patent Issued to RENESAS ELECTRONICS on Oct. 21 for "Solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and AD converter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,559, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to RENESAS ELECTRONICS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Solid-state image sensor, imaging device, and AD converter" was invented by Yoichi Iizuka (Tokyo) and Fukashi Morishita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solid-state image sensor includes a buffer circuit, and an AD conversion circuit. The buffer circuit is connected to a first pixel and a second pixel of a plurality of pixels. The AD conversion circuit converts a voltage signal from the buffer circuit into a digital signal. The buffer circuit includes a voltage holding circuit connected to the first pixel, a voltage holding circuit connected to the sec...