ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,757, issued on Feb. 18, 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 present disclosure facilitates access to an imaging surface of an imaging element in an imaging apparatus in which a plurality of optical filters are selectively arranged in front of the imaging surface of the imaging element.An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including an imaging surface on which light from a subject is incident, a first filter unit including a first optical filter, a second filter unit including ...