ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,963, issued on May 27, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and imaging program" was invented by Kazuya Okiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging element that images a subject through an imaging optical system; and a processor, and the processor is configured to: detect a moving object present in a plurality of pieces of pixel data obtained by the imaging element at different time points; perform detection processing of obstruction of the moving object by an object at a time point in a future based on a result of comparison between a first d...