ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,945, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Stereoscopic optical system and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Takayoshi Yokoyama (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An stereoscopic optical system includes two parallel optical systems arranged in parallel for a single common image sensor. Each optical system has an angle of view in which an image of another optical system is formed in a first area at an outer peripheral portion in an image circle, and includes a field stop in a second area at an inner peripheral portion in the image circle. A distance between centers of the image circles of the two ...