US Patent Issued to CANON on June 23 for "Lens barrel and control apparatus that provide a plurality of modes that are switchable" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,608, issued on June 23, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens barrel and control apparatus that provide a plurality of modes that are switchable" was invented by Yasuhiro Hatakeyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens barrel includes a detecting unit that detects a position of an optical element in an optical axis direction, a driving unit that drives so as to change the position of the optical element in the optical axis direction, and a memory that stores setting information about the position of the optical element in the optical axis direction. The lens barrel is switchable between a storage mode for storing setting ...