US Patent Issued to Canon on July 15 for "Image pickup apparatus simultaneously obtaining visible and invisible light images, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,428, issued on July 15, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus simultaneously obtaining visible and invisible light images, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Satoshi Shoda (Tochigi, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakaoka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, a memory device, and a processor. The image sensor includes first pixels and second pixels that are arranged two-dimensionally and that respectively receive visible light and invisible light entering through an image pickup optical system. Each of the ...