ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,401, issued on July 8, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus and imaging system" was invented by Osamu Kawamae (Kyoto, Japan), Chiyo Ohno (Tokyo), Hiroyasu Otsubo (Kyoto, Japan) and Osamu Ishizaki (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging system capable of stereo-photographing with both of visible and infrared images, and improving color reproducibility in visible-light-photographing. The imaging system includes two imaging sensors, and two DBPFs that have transmittance characteristics in a visible light band a second wavelength band, are respectively provided correspondingly to the t...