US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 24 for "Control apparatus, optical apparatus, and imaging apparatus rotating a focal plane around an axis defined by a feature point of an object" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,301, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, optical apparatus, and imaging apparatus rotating a focal plane around an axis defined by a feature point of an object" was invented by Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan), Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan), Toru Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan), Akino Moriyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroki Osaka (Tochigi, Japan), Yoshiki Saji (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takami Hirasawa (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system comprising: a lens barrel including a plurality of optical members and configured to image an object; an imag...