US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 16 for "Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,656, issued on June 16, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, imaging method, and program" was invented by Taro Saito (Saitama, Japan), Takehiro Koguchi (Saitama, Japan), Shinya Fujiwara (Saitama, Japan) and Yukinori Nishiyama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes an image sensor and a processor. The processor performs demosaicing processing on captured image data obtained by being imaged by the image sensor, acquires distance data representing a distance between the imaging apparatus and a subject for each of a plurality of pixels included in a captured image represented b...