US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 2 for "Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method for lens apparatus, and medium storing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,442, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method for lens apparatus, and medium storing program" was invented by Toshihiro Okuda (Tochigi, Japan), Kunihiko Sasaki (Tochigi, Japan), Shu Ito (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 being moved in optical axis direction manually or by an external driver; a second holder holding a second lens unit and being electrically moved in optical axis di...