US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, method of controlling lens apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,083, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, method of controlling lens apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Shu Ito (Tochigi, Japan), Toshihiro Okuda (Tochigi, Japan), Kunihiko Sasaki (Tochigi, Japan), Tadanori Okada (Tochigi, Japan), Takehiko Sato (Tochigi, Japan) and Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes a first holder holding a first lens unit and moving, manually or by an external driver, in an optical axis direction, a second holder holding a second lens unit and being electrically driven in ...