US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 15 for "Imaging apparatus capable of changing thinning-out rates for different angles of view" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,436, issued on July 15, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus capable of changing thinning-out rates for different angles of view" was invented by Yuya Nishio (Saitama, Japan), Tetsu Wada (Saitama, Japan), Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, Japan) and Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus has an imaging element that captures an optical image with a first angle of view, and a control unit that has a first mode and a second mode as a video imaging mode and records video data of a video based on the optical image. The control unit executes thinning-out drive to thin out a part o...