ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,123, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Katsuya Nozawa (Osaka, Japan), Motoki Yako (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Kiyohara (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: at least one light source that emits excitation light for irradiating an object including at least one light emitter; a coding filter array including filters whose transmission spectra differ from each other; an image sensor that captures an image of object light, which is generated by irradiating the object with the excitation light, thro...