US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Jan. 27 for "Imaging device and method for operating imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,042, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and method for operating imaging device" was invented by Ryuichi Tadano (Tokyo) and Ilya Reshetouski (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device capable of improving the image quality of a reconstructed image in lensless imaging, and a method for operating the imaging device. In lensless imaging, a selection filter is provided that, for each of a plurality of regions into which an imaging surface on the imaging element is divided, allows only the modulated light having optical characteristics that are orthogonal to each oth...