ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,063, issued on July 7, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Imaging device" was invented by Kazuyuki Ohashi (Osaka, Japan), Kazuhiro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan), Tomonori Kono (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Tetsuya Takeda (Nara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: a mechanical shutter; a shutter driver that operates the mechanical shutter in a continuous shooting mode and a single shooting mode; a driving electric power supplier; and an undercut controller (undercut/driving electric power controller) that stops operation of the imaging device when...