US Patent Issued to NIKON on June 2 for "Imaging device and image processing device in which a blackout free live view display with a natural appearance is realized" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,672, issued on June 2, was assigned to NIKON Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and image processing device in which a blackout free live view display with a natural appearance is realized" was invented by Kazuhiro Sasaki (Nishitokyo, Japan), Yuki Miura (Kawasaki, Japan), Kazue Minagawa (Kawasaki, Japan) and Takeo Motohashi (Matsudo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: an imaging element configured to output a sequence of first frames at a first interval through first image capture, and output a second frame through an instruction for second image capture; a thinning unit configured to perform thinning of the ...