ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,745, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Mai Nakabayashi (Tokyo), Tamaki Negishi (Tokyo), Toru Matsumoto (Kanagawa, Japan), Shimpei Itagaki (Tokyo) and Naoki Nomura (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor with a plurality of pixels including focus detection pixels that output signals so as to be able to acquire a pair of focus detection signals having parallax based on light fluxes that have passed through mutually different pupil regions of an imaging optical system are arranged...