ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,074, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Camera system" was invented by Aihiko Numata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system configured to inspect an inspection target moving in a first direction includes an illumination unit configured to irradiate the inspection target with a terahertz wave, and a camera unit disposed at a position which the terahertz wave reflected on the inspection target enters, and configured to acquire an image formed by the reflected terahertz wave. The illumination unit includes a plurality of illumination elements two-dimensionally arranged in the first direction and a sec...