ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,814, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus and its control method" was invented by Hirotaro Kikuchi (Tokyo) and Koichi Fukuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, and a processor that configured to detect a phase difference between a pair of detection signals generated by signals read out of at least a part of pixels, perform a first detection for detecting the phase difference in the first direction and a second detection for detecting the phase difference in the second direction, perform first processing for acquiring the information by th...