ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,503, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Imaging device" was invented by Tetsu Ogawa (Tokyo), Hiroshi Mori (Tokyo) and Atsushi Ito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device according to the present technology includes a light source spectral sensor that obtains a wavelength spectrum for light coming from a light source illuminating a measurement target, to detect light for each wavelength, and a multispectral camera that performs wavelength spectral imaging of the measurement target. The light source spectral sensor is capable of obtaining a spectrum of more wavelengths than those of the multis...