US Patent Issued to Kubota on Sept. 22 for "Camera system including at least two light sources" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,964, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Kubota Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Camera system including at least two light sources" was invented by Susumu Morimoto (Sakai, Japan), Masaya Mori (Fremont, Calif.), Srikanth Kadiyala (Fremont, Calif.), Pius Ng (Fremont, Calif.) and Dharma Hariharan Babu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system includes a camera, a first light source, and a second light source. A main optical axis of the first light source intersects with a main optical axis of the second light source at an intersection point, and the intersection point is not located within a depth of field of the camera."...