US Patent Issued to CANON on March 17 for "Image capturing apparatus capable of reducing exposure variation between upper and lower end areas of image, method of controlling image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,623, issued on March 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus capable of reducing exposure variation between upper and lower end areas of image, method of controlling image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Yukihiro Matsumoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus capable of reducing exposure variation in opposite end areas of an image when photographing is performed with flash light emission while shortening a flash synchronization time. A system controller determines a shutter speed for flash light emission photographing. The system controller se...