ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,825, issued on July 21, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Detection method, imaging apparatus, and program" was invented by Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan) and Hideaki Kokubun (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a detection method used in an imaging apparatus including an imaging element that has a first pixel for generating a first signal and second and third pixels for generating second and third signals for detecting a phase difference, and a memory that stores a machine-trained model, the detection method including: an input step of inputting a second image based on the second signal, a third...