ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,730, issued on May 26, was assigned to JAPAN DISPLAY INC. (Tokyo).
"Camera having a liquid crystal display panel between a lens and an imaging device" was invented by Yoshiro Aoki (Tokyo), Hirondo Nakatogawa (Tokyo) and Hitoshi Tanaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a camera includes a lens, a liquid crystal display panel, an imaging device on which light is made incident through the lens and the liquid crystal display panel, a first driver configured to drive the imaging device to capture an image of an object, a camera substrate on which the imaging device and the first driver are arranged, and a s...