US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 25 for "Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,196, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium" was invented by Noa Sumida (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a phase difference detection unit configured to detect a phase differences in a first direction and in a second direction, a focus detection unit configured to detect a focusing state based on the phase differences in the first direction and in the second direction and acquire reliability of the focusing state, an adjustment unit configured to perform focus adjustment based on the focusin...