ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,450, issued on July 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus and control method for imaging apparatus" was invented by Shinnosuke Osawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideki Kadoi (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control so that a representative brightness of a high brightness region of an image becomes a target brightness set by a user; and a tone correction unit configured to perform tone correction on a captured image, which was captured after performing the ...