ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,023, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus, method, and storage medium" was invented by Kohei Sato (Tokyo) and Keisuke Matsuno (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element; a mechanism capable of changing a relative position between the imaging element and an object image; a deterioration degree estimation unit that estimates a degree of deterioration through time for each region of the imaging element; a luminance value acquisition unit that acquires a luminance value of a screen corresponding to a first region that is the region in which the degre...