US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 24 for "Imaging apparatus, drive method of imaging apparatus, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,761, issued on March 24, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, drive method of imaging apparatus, and program" was invented by Hitoshi Sakurabu (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging apparatus configured to: execute a first mode that is a mode related to focusing on a subject and in which focusing information of a first region is acquired by performing a first shift operation on first phase difference information, which is obtained from a first phase difference pixel group within the first region, and second phase difference information, which is obtained from a second phase...