ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,697, issued on June 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Masanobu Ito (Tokyo), Jun Aoyama (Tokyo) and Hiroki Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an imaging device including a camera body configured to attach, to a barrel body, a lens barrel including a collapsible barrel in which a barrel holding at least one lens can be in a stored state and in an extended state by manual operation, and a control unit configured to perform control to execute a display of information indicating a state of the imaging device in a case where the lens ...