US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Oct. 20 for "Imaging device, control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,112, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device, control method, and program" was invented by Kei Kakidani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuma Tanae (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging device includes: an imaging element; a neutral density (ND) filter unit including a plurality of filter holders, each of the filter holders being mounted with a plurality of optical ND filters having different transmittances and being able to selectively insert the optical ND filters into an incident optical path for the imaging element; and a control unit. The control unit can variably set the transmit...