US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "Focus adjustment apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,198, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus adjustment apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, image capturing system, and storage medium" was invented by Atsuya Kawanishi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focus adjustment apparatus detects a rotation angle of a holding unit that holds an imaging unit including an image sensor and an optical system including a focus lens and that has a rotation unit that rotates the imaging unit, controls a position of the focus lens to perform focus adjustment, and, in a case where a rotation angle of the holding is detected by the first detection unit, calculat...