ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,977, issued on June 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Koichi Otsuka (Osaka, Japan) and Takaaki Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging sensor configured to capture a subject image to generate original image data; an image processor configured to perform image processing to generate image data, the image processing providing the original image data with a predetermined effect; a storage configured to store a plurality of first parameter sets each defining th...