US Patent Issued to CANON on May 26 for "Image capturing apparatus capable of reducing influence of flicker, method of controlling same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,336, issued on May 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus capable of reducing influence of flicker, method of controlling same, and storage medium" was invented by Hinako Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus that has an image sensor for capturing an object image formed through an optical system. A flicker detection section detects a frequency and a phase of flicker. A curtain speed as a time over which a shutter runs from the top to the bottom of the image sensor and a flicker period time as a time of one period of flicker are compared. In a case where the cu...