ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,873, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Yamasaki (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 that captures a subject image by receiving light of a plurality of colors, to generate image data; a controller that controls the image sensor; and an adjuster that adjusts a light reception rate, in each position on an incident surface, the light reception rate allowing the image sensor to receive the light color by color, the incident surface be...