US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 16 for "Solid-state imaging device with ramp generator circuit" (Norwegian, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,629, issued on June 16, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Solid-state imaging device with ramp generator circuit" was invented by Jae-Sung An (Oslo, Norway) and Naoki Kawazu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pixel circuits of a solid-state imaging device are arranged in pixel columns, wherein, for each pixel column, signal outputs of the pixel circuits are connected to a data signal line. The solid-state imaging device further includes comparator circuits, wherein each comparator circuit generates an active comparator signal in response to a voltage difference between a first compara...