ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,896, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device and focus position setting method" was invented by Seiichi Inomata (Tokyo) and Na Xu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to the present technology includes a user operation detection unit that detects an operation of a user for focus control, a focus position movement detection unit that detects movement of a focus position based on the operation of the user detected by the user operation detection unit, a depth information detection unit that detects depth information in a focus control target area, and a focus control uni...