ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,236, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Wataru Okamoto (Osaka, Japan), Akira Seto (Osaka, Japan) and Shinichi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, a controller, and a user interface. The image sensor captures a subject image to generate imaging data. The controller performs repair processing to generate a moving image file from a corrupted file, the moving image file being capable of reproducing a moving image indicated by the imaging data, the corrupted file having a ...