US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 27 for "Apparatus capable of suppressing influence of flicker, and method of controlling same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,035, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus capable of suppressing influence of flicker, and method of controlling same" was invented by Yuya Ebata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including an image sensor that photoelectrically converts visible light and invisible light. Image data output by the image sensor is separated into visible light image data and invisible light image data. In a first process, an invisible light flicker period is detected from the invisible light image data, and the image sensor is controlled, based on the detected invisible light flicker period, such t...