US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Nov. 11 for "Imaging apparatus, imaging control method, and imaging control program with modes for focus control and tracking processing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,818, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging control method, and imaging control program with modes for focus control and tracking processing" was invented by Taro Saito (Saitama, Japan), Takehiro Koguchi (Saitama, Japan), Shinya Fujiwara (Saitama, Japan), Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an imaging optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, in which, in a first focus mode, the processor outputs moving image data captured by the imaging element via the imaging optical system to ...