US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Feb. 24 for "Imaging device and control method of imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,289, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device and control method of imaging device" was invented by Yasuhiro Shingu (Osaka, Japan) and Koki Arimi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: an imaging element having an imaging plane for light from an object to enter; a switching mechanism that switches a first transmissibility state and a second transmissibility state therebetween by varying transmissibility for the light entering the imaging plane using optical filters, a processor that controls the imaging element and the swit...