ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,317, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Imaging element and imaging device" was invented by Shinichi Miyake (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuyuki Tomida (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsumi Niwa (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging element that comprises a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate including a plurality of detection pixels that generates a voltage signal corresponding to a logarithmic value of a photocurrent, and the second substrate including a detection circuit that detects whether the change amount of the voltage signal of a de...