US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Sept. 1 for "Imaging device and imaging method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,712, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging device and imaging method" was invented by Junki Yoshimuta (Kanagawa, Japan), Yutaro Honda (Kanagawa, Japan), Masamiki Kawase (Tokyo) and Naoto Makino (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an imaging device and an imaging method that can perform imaging while appropriately adjusting each of exposure of SDR video and exposure of HDR video. The imaging device includes: an SDR signal processing unit configured to generate SDR video on the basis of a video signal output from an imaging element; an HDR signal processing unit configured to generate...