US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on July 8 for "Optical member, lens device, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,059, issued on July 8, was assigned to FUJIFILM (Tokyo).

"Optical member, lens device, 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: "An optical member includes aperture regions, a lens device, and an imaging apparatus. A lens device includes: an imaging optical system; a first polarizing part that polarizes at least a part of rays transmitted through the imaging optical system; and a filter unit that is disposed at a pupil position of the imaging optical system or near the pup...