US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 13 for "Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with improving brightness through gradation correction" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,527, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, method for controlling imaging device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with improving brightness through gradation correction" was invented by Hideki Kadoi (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes a setting unit configured to set a target brightness level of a high-brightness region in an imaging scene; an exposure control unit configured to perform photometry to control exposure; and a gradation correction unit configured to perform predetermined gradation correction on an image obtained by imaging, wherei...