ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,997, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Image pickup apparatus" was invented by Toshiaki Ono (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A image pickup apparatus that includes a photoelectric conversion unit that performs photoelectric conversion, a first capacitor and a second capacitor that hold a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit, and an initialization switch that initializes the second capacitor, in which one end of the first capacitor, one end of the second capacitor, and an amplification unit that amplifies a signal from the photoelectric conversion unit are c...