ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,776, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Stereo lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Taro Murakami (Tokyo), Hiroki Ito (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Fukai (Kanagawa, Japan), Kiyoshi Nitto (Saitama, Japan), Takumi Uehara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsuto Noda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stereo lens apparatus includes two optical systems arranged in parallel. Each of the two optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, first to third lens units. An optical path is bent at a position between the first and second lens units and at a position between the second and...