US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 26 for "Imaging element, imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging element, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,922, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging element, imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging element, and program" was invented by Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan), Makoto Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan), Ryo Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging element includes a reading circuit that reads out pixel data obtained by imaging a subject at a first frame rate, a memory that stores the read pixel data, and an output circuit that outputs image data based on the stored pixel data at a second frame rate. The first frame rate is a frame rate hig...