US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Accessory apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,233, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Accessory apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuto Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory apparatus attachable to an image pickup apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system arranged in parallel with the first optical system; and a processor configured to control the first optical system and the second optical system. The processor has a first mode for simultaneously driving the first optical system and the second optical system, and a second mode for independently drivi...