ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,998, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Junji Shimada (Tokyo), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Chiba, Japan) and Makoto Ohta (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device is configured to perform processing of generating, as metadata associated with a captured image, correction information based on both a first blur correction value related to a first blur correction function of correcting a positional relationship between an optical image incident through a lens and an output captured image and a second blur correction value related to a second blur correction ...