US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Imaging apparatus and control method therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,212, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Sairi Iwata (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yuya Sasaki (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus can include an angle calculation unit configured to calculate attitude angles of a main body unit and a display unit from gravitational accelerations acquired from a first acceleration sensor and a second acceleration sensor, and switches a calculation method of the attitude angles to be calculated by the angle calculation unit based on a vibration state detected by a vibration detection unit."

The ...