US Patent Issued to Leica Camera on March 18 for "Imaging system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,644, issued on March 18, was assigned to Leica Camera AG (Germany).

"Imaging system and method" was invented by Ziv Attar (Los Altos, Calif.) and George Douglas MacEwen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In exemplary illustrative embodiments, a method of generating a digital image and/or modified depth information may include obtaining, via a first electronic sensor, a plurality of images of a target within a time period; selecting one or more pixels in a first image of the plurality of images; identifying corresponding pixels, that correspond to the one or more selected pixels, in one or more other images of the ...