ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,974, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program" was invented by Toshihiro Aoi (Saitama, Japan), Masahiko Sugimoto (Saitama, Japan), Shinichi Shimotsu (Saitama, Japan) and Tetsuya Fujikawa (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an optical element that extracts a plurality of pieces of band light from incident light incident on an optical system, a photoelectric conversion device capable of imaging the plurality of pieces of band light extracted from the incident light by the optical element, and a processor that outputs image data obta...