ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,215, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, operation method of imaging apparatus, program, and imaging system" was invented by Ryo Hasegawa (Saitama, Japan), Tomoyuki Kawai (Saitama, Japan), Makoto Kobayashi (Saitama, Japan), Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan) and Kazufumi Sugawara (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element and a second processor. The imaging element incorporates a memory which stores image data obtained by imaging at a first frame rate, and a first processor configured to output the image data at a second frame rate independ...