US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on May 19 for "Imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,573, issued on May 19, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus" was invented by Takaaki Yamasaki (Osaka, Japan) and Takakazu Bito (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor configured to capture a subject image via an optical system to generate image data; an input interface configured to acquire a zoom amount indicating a degree of a zoom operation by a user for an optical system; a controller configured to scale a cropped image from the image data to change, from a first focal length, a second focal length, according to th...