ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,904, issued on June 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, imaging system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kazuya Higuma (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus is attachable to and detachable from a lens apparatus configured to provide tilt drive by an actuator. The image pickup apparatus includes an image processing unit configured to add a reverse tilt imaging effect to an image acquired through the lens apparatus using image processing, and a processor configured to determine whether to add the effect to the image using at least the ima...