US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Aug. 12 for "Filter array including optical filters having different light transmittances from each other, photodetector, and photodetection system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,134, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Filter array including optical filters having different light transmittances from each other, photodetector, and photodetection system" was invented by Atsushi Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan) and Motoki Yako (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter array, which is to be used in a photodetection system that generates image data of each of N wavelength bands (where N is an integer greater than or equal to 4), includes optical filters whose light transmittances in each of the N wavelength bands differ from each other. (Sigma...