ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,714, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, imaging method, and program" was invented by Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan), Taro Saito (Saitama, Japan), Takehiro Koguchi (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoharu Shimada (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and a program capable of changing assignment of functions to a plurality of operation units according to a use environment of the imaging device. An imaging device (1) includes: a plurality of operation units (265) provided on a plurality of surfaces of a device main body (101), respectively, ...