ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,714, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and imaging control method" was invented by Fuminori Nohara (Tokyo) and Satoshi Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a control unit configured to, before starting processing of reading a pixel signal forming a still image to be recorded from an imaging element in a case where an operation for still image imaging and recording is performed, calculates displayable timing in a display unit for the still image, and performs display setting processing according to the calculated displayable timing."

The patent was filed ...