US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 8 for "Imaging apparatus and method for controlling imaging apparatus including limited range determination" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,699, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Imaging apparatus and method for controlling imaging apparatus including limited range determination" was invented by Naotaka Kishida (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus of the present disclosure comprises: a processor; a memory storing instructions to be executed by the processor; a camera body including an imaging element and a display panel; and an interchangeable lens including a lens, a zoom ring that varies position of the lens, and a zoom encoder that detects information on zoom position of...