US Patent Issued to CANON on April 21 for "Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method for lens apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,822, issued on April 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method for lens apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Minoru Uchiyama (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes an optical system including a focus lens unit and a magnification-varying lens unit, and a processor configured to control driving of the focus lens unit. The processor is configured to acquire a detected position of the magnification-varying lens unit from a zoom position detector, and determine a target position of the focus lens unit according to a predicted position of th...