US Patent Issued to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS on Feb. 10 for "Imaging device and image processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,867, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Imaging device and image processing method" was invented by Takayoshi Ozone (Kanagawa, Japan), Ikki Hara (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichi Sakamoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Shinya Sumikura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an imaging device that includes a determination unit that determines two or more regions including first and second regions with respect to an imaging region of an imaging unit on the basis of a degree of focus of an image acquired by the imaging unit. The imaging device further includes a processing unit ...