ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,388, issued on April 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Yumi Takao (Chiba, Japan) and Masato Nakata (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor with a plurality of pixels including focus detection pixels that output signals so as to be able to acquire a pair of focus detection signals having parallax based on light fluxes that have passed through mutually different pupil regions of an imaging optical system; a movement control unit that moves incident positions of the light fluxes on the image sensor;...