US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on June 2 for "Imaging device and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,701, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Haruhisa Naganokawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kengo Umeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To reduce the number of signals transmitted and received between a plurality of stacked substrates and a plurality of layers.[Solution] An imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels each having a photoelectric converter; an analog-to-digital converter provided for each area pixel composed of two or more of the pixels in the plurality of pixels to convert a signal corresponding to a ...