US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 28 for "Imaging apparatus with gradation correction and control method of imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,422, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus with gradation correction and control method of imaging apparatus" was invented by Misaki Suzuki (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 representative brightness of a high brightness region of an image approaches a target brightness that is set by a user; and a gradation correction unit configured to perform gradation correction to increase a contr...