US Patent Issued to CANON on April 14 for "Control apparatus, interchangeable lens, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,960, issued on April 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, interchangeable lens, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Koya Kobayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is configured to control an interchangeable lens attachable to, detachable from, and communicable with an image pickup apparatus, and includes a unit. The control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions to determine whether the interchangeable lens is attached to the image pickup apparatus, control the unit using at least one of information from the ima...