ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,619, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging device and imaging system" was invented by Tomoki Zembutsu (Osaka, Japan), Takashi Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Takayoshi Shimoda (Osaka, Japan), Masahiro Yamada (Osaka, Japan), Akira Seto (Osaka, Japan) and Kenji Arakawa (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an imaging device or an imaging system, it becomes possible to generate a moving image file in which audio and a moving image are synchronized with each other even if moving image capturing is started from the middle of music. Upon receiving an operation input...