ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,239, issued on July 14, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, imaging apparatus, imaging method, and non-transitory recording medium" was invented by Ryo Yamakabe (Tokyo), Kosuke Yoshimi (Tokyo), Yuka Ogino (Tokyo), Ryuichi Akashi (Tokyo), Masato Tsukada (Tokyo) and Ryoma Oami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging system includes: an information acquisition unit that acquires movement information about a movement of at least a part of a target; a periodicity estimation unit that estimates periodicity about the movement of at least a part of the target, on the basis of the movement information; and an image ac...