US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Jan. 13 for "Optical member and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,808, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical member and imaging apparatus" was invented by Yuya Hirakawa (Saitama, Japan), Kazuyoshi Okada (Saitama, Japan), Yasunobu Kishine (Saitama, Japan) and Atsushi Kawanago (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided an optical member and an imaging apparatus. An optical member includes a plurality of aperture regions which transmit a ray of an optical system and include a first aperture region and a second aperture region and of which the first aperture region and the second aperture region are adjacent to each other, a plurality of optical filt...