US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Aug. 4 for "Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,339, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element" was invented by Ryoto Yoshita (Kanagawa, Japan), Luonghung Asakura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshiaki Inada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention improves image quality while preventing a decrease in frame rate in a solid-state imaging element in which all pixels are exposed simultaneously. The solid-state imaging element includes a comparison unit, a pre-stage circuit, a capacitor unit, and a post-stage circuit. Th...