US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on July 7 for "Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element with a sample-and-hold circuit including a plurality of capacitor elements" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,079, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging element, imaging device, and method for controlling solid-state imaging element with a sample-and-hold circuit including a plurality of capacitor elements" was invented by Keigo Nakazawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryohei Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit scale is reduced in a solid-state imaging element that combines a plurality of frames.A pre-stage circuit generates an analog signal as a pixel signal. A sample-and-hold circuit holds a high gain signal obtained by amplifying the pixel signal wi...