US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on March 17 for "Imaging apparatus and imaging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,701, issued on March 17, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and imaging system" was invented by Takaaki Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan), Shinichi Yamamoto (Osaka, Japan) and Wataru Okamoto (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a communication interface that communicates data with an image processing apparatus connected via a communication network, an image sensor that captures a subject image to generate image data, a controller that transmits the image data to the image processing apparatus via the communication interface, to request i...