ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,423, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan), Takehiro Koguchi (Saitama, Japan), Taro Saito (Saitama, Japan) and Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging apparatus capable of continuously imaging a natural video even though brightness is changed. In an imaging apparatus in which an exposure condition is set based on a characteristic of a transmittance control element, a first exposure condition range is calculated based on photometry of the imaging apparatus. Determination is made whether or not the...