ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,512, issued on April 29, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Kuroki (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including an imaging surface on which light from a subject is incident, a first filter unit including an electronic first optical filter capable of changing a light transmittance, and a first drive mechanism that rotates the first filter unit about a first rotation center line between a first filtering position and a first retraction position. The first filtering position is a positi...