US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Movable apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,273, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Movable apparatus" was invented by Tomoaki Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable apparatus comprises an image capturing apparatus configured to include an optical system that forms an optical image having a high-resolution region on the outer side of an optical axis on a light-reception surface of an image capturing unit, wherein the image capturing apparatus is arranged so as to capture images in a forward direction of the movable apparatus, in a side direction of the movable apparatus, in a vertically downward facing direction to a side of the...