US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Jan. 27 for "Imaging apparatus, focus control method, and program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,023, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, focus control method, and program" was invented by Yoshitaka Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshinori Yamatsuta (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an imaging apparatus that includes an autofocus processing section and a focus range control section. The autofocus processing section executes autofocus control over a subject within a focus range that is set as a range of a depth-direction distance. The focus range control section changes the settings of the focus range after the subject is focused under the autofocus control."

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