US Patent Issued to CANON on July 28 for "Image pickup apparatus, focus detecting method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,986, issued on July 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, focus detecting method, and storage medium" was invented by Yumi Takao (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor configured to capture an object image formed by an imaging optical system, and to acquire a first pair of signals generated by light beams that have passed areas in an exit pupil that are different from each other and arranged in a first direction and a second pair of signals generated by light beams that have passed areas in the exit pupil that are different each other and arranged in ...