US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on July 21 for "Imaging apparatus and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,835, issued on July 21, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and imaging system" was invented by Tetsuo Saito (Osaka, Japan) and Takayuki Tochio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus is capable of performing a normal imaging operation of capturing a subject image to generate image data and a dark subtraction operation of performing a dark subtraction on the image data to generate repaired image data. The imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to generate image data during the normal imaging operation when a shutter is opened ...