ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,749, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Sayuri Idaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus comprises a driving unit configured to change an orientation of an image capturing unit. In a case where the orientation of the image capturing unit is changed, the control apparatus applies a first current value applied at the time of normal driving to the driving unit in a case where a speed of the driving unit does not fall within a predetermined speed range, and applies a second current value larger than the first current value to the d...