ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,222, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Signal processing device, imaging device, and signal processing method" was invented by Yuki Tamano (Kanagawa, Japan), Takashi Fujikawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Kosuke Iwao (Tokyo), Yohei Kato (Kanagawa, Japan), Yasushi Yamazaki (Tokyo), Yasutaka Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Miyazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an acquisition unit, a counter, and a threshold changing unit. The acquisition unit acquires, of a plurality of electrical s...