US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 2 for "Imaging apparatus, method, and medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,941, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, method, and medium" was invented by Ryo Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes at least one processor, and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to acquire a parameter related to a brightness of a subject; determine whether to insert a first filter configured to attenuate infrared light into a light path of an imaging optical system, based on whether the acquired parameter satisfies a ...