US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 20 for "Image pickup apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,933, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yumi Takao (Chiba, Japan) and Nobutaka Mizuno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes a processor configured to control an imaging optical system based on a defocus amount from an image sensor. In a case where the imaging optical system is a first lens apparatus having a plurality of optical axes and includes a first optical system and a second optical system arranged in parallel with the first optical system, the processor is configured to control the imaging op...