US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 27 for "Imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium for capturing an image of an object by an optical system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,673, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium for capturing an image of an object by an optical system" was invented by Kazuhiro Monden (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an element configured to capture an image of an object by an optical system, a first filter disposed closer to an object side than the optical system and configured to attenuate light entering the element, at least one processor, and a memory coupled to the at least one processor and storing instructions that cause the at least one processor to set any of a first mode in wh...