US Patent Issued to Fujikura on March 18 for "Imaging device, imaging method, and method for producing the imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,160, issued on March 18, was assigned to Fujikura Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, imaging method, and method for producing the imaging device" was invented by Hiroyuki Kusaka (Tokyo), Masahiro Kashiwagi (Tokyo) and Yuichiro Kunai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: an optical computing section that receives a first optical signal and generates a second optical signal including a feature amount extracted from the first optical signal; an image sensor that converts the second optical signal into a first electric signal including a piece of image information; and a computer that receives the first electric ...