US Patent Issued to PANASONIC HOLDINGS on July 29 for "Optical system, imaging device, and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,782, issued on July 29, was assigned to PANASONIC HOLDINGS Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Optical system, imaging device, and imaging system" was invented by Ryo Kurosaki (Hyogo, Japan), Toru Nanba (Osaka, Japan), Jun Murata (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuya Suzuki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes: a lens group having an optical axis, a focal length of a first light, and a focal length of a second light; and a light splitter disposed at rear side of the lens group and splitting the first light and the second light incident from the lens group respectively, to guide the first light onto first imaging position a...