US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 22 for "Finder and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,003, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Finder and imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroki Saito (Saitama, Japan), Shunsuke Miyagishima (Saitama, Japan), Kosuke Takahashi (Saitama, Japan) and Tomoki Otsuki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A finder includes, in order from an object side to an eye point side, an objective optical system that forms an intermediate image, and an ocular optical system that is provided for observation of the intermediate image. The intermediate image is positioned on the optical path between the objective optical system and the ocular optical system. The finder in...