US Patent Issued to Canon on July 21 for "Image pickup apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,826, issued on July 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masahiro Kawarada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to capture an object image formed by each of a first optical system and a second optical system arranged in parallel with the first optical system, the first optical system and the second optical system being included in a compound-eye optical system, and a processor configured to detect a defocus amount of each of the first optical system and the second optical system regarding ...