US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "System capable of changing aperture value of diaphragm within lens apparatus on both lens side and camera side, pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,210, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"System capable of changing aperture value of diaphragm within lens apparatus on both lens side and camera side, pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yusuke Tamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system has a camera and a lens unit, and in a first mode, a diaphragm of the lens unit is controlled such that an effective aperture value is a first aperture value set according to a user operation and in the camera, a photometric value is calculated from a frame image during a Live View operation in a state where an amount...