ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,454, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).
"Image capture apparatus and image capture method" was invented by Masashi Ogata (Tokyo), Shigeru Doida (Kawasaki, Japan) and Erika Koishi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus including: an image capturing device that has a plurality of pixels outputting pixel signals according to incident light, the plurality of pixels being divided into a plurality of blocks each including at least two pixels, and an exposure condition being set for each block; an image capture control unit that changes a light receiving position on the image capt...