US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 23 for "Optical system, imaging apparatus, and projection apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,667, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Optical system, imaging apparatus, and projection apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Imai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system including: an imaging element configured to convert light into an electric signal; a lens configured to deflect and converge the light; and a prism disposed in an optical path between the imaging element and the lens, wherein a virtual image of a light receiving surface of the imaging element is formed in the prism and a focusing surface is at a position conjugate with the virtual image with the lens interposed therebetween."

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