US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Sept. 22 for "Imaging apparatus, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,006, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, control method, and program" was invented by Akihiro Hashiguchi (Saitama, Japan) and Takeo Hyodo (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes a housing loaded with a film on which a photosensitive surface is caused to be exposed to subject light to record a subject image, and a light source that is provided in the housing and is capable of emitting, to the photosensitive surface, effect light that exposes the photosensitive surface in a manner superimposed on the subject light to impart a visual effect to the subject ...