US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on Aug. 4 for "Stop drive control device, operation method of stop drive control device, operation program of stop drive control device, and imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,331, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Stop drive control device, operation method of stop drive control device, operation program of stop drive control device, and imaging apparatus" was invented by Masato Fujii (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CPU of a controller of an imaging apparatus includes a stop driving controller. The stop driving controller performs drive control of a stop opening degree adjustment mechanism based on opening degree history information in which a current opening degree is associated with a target opening degree in accordance with a fluctuation of a focal length of a z...