US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on June 3 for "Filter array and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,701, issued on June 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Filter array and imaging system" was invented by Motoki Yako (Osaka, Japan) and Atsushi Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filter array includes optical filters arranged in two dimensions. The optical filters include a first filter and a second filter. The first filter includes a first multimode filter having, within a target wavelength range, first peak wavelengths at each of which the optical transmittance is at a local maximum, and a first band-limiting filter having, as a limiting band, a first sub-wavel...