ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,964, issued on May 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging apparatus and imaging method" was invented by Akira Fukuda (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area...