US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 19 for "Control device, imaging apparatus, control method, and control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,178, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control device, imaging apparatus, control method, and control program" was invented by Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device controls an imaging apparatus and includes a processor, and the processor is configured to: based on image data of a first frame and image data of a second frame among a plurality of frames obtained by the imaging apparatus, predict distance information related to a distance between the imaging apparatus and a subject in a third frame subsequent to the first frame and the second frame; and based on a sta...