US Patent Issued to CANON on March 24 for "Image pickup apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,172, issued on March 24, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus" was invented by Nagisa Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuaki Yamana (Kanagawa, Japan), Shoma Mizutani (Tokyo), Yuki Totori (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Asai (Kanagawa, Japan), Keisuke Adachi (Tokyo) and Sho Nagatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical filter, a holding member configured to hold the optical filter, a driving unit configured to move the holding member, a grip portion to be gripped by a user, and a control board. The optical filter is movable by the driving unit between a firs...