US Patent Issued to CANON on April 21 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, focal plane control method, and storage medium that control tilting of a focal plane of an optical system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,139, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, focal plane control method, and storage medium that control tilting of a focal plane of an optical system" was invented by Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan), Toru Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan), Akino Moriyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroki Osaka (Tochigi, Japan), Yoshiki Saji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takami Hirasawa (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execut...