ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,243, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Back light correcting device, method of operating back light correcting device, program of operating back light correcting device, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Akihiro Uchida (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first determination section performs first determination to determine that an imaged scene of an image is a backlit scene, in which light is emitted from behind a subject, in a case where a difference in luminance between a representative value of an exposure value of a reference region and a representative value of an exposure value of a p...