US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image stabilization apparatus and method, and image capturing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,238, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image stabilization apparatus and method, and image capturing system" was invented by Tomomi Mogami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image stabilization apparatus comprising: a control unit that controls image stabilization for reducing image blur, by shooting a plurality of images with an image sensor, and aligning and compositing the plurality of images; an acquisition unit that acquires information relating to an exposure period and a resolving power of an image capturing system including the image sensor; and a determination unit that determines whethe...