US Patent Issued to Sony Semiconductor Solutions on March 17 for "Imaging circuit and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,211, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging circuit and imaging device" was invented by Katsuhiko Hanzawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirotsugu Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an imaging circuit and an imaging device capable of achieving switching of output types while a circuit scale is reduced. An imaging circuit according to the present disclosure includes: a photoelectric conversion element that converts incident light into a photocurrent; a first transistor that converts the photocurrent into a voltage signal; a second transistor that amp...