US Patent Issued to CANON on April 29 for "Image capturing apparatus, controlling method, and medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,527, issued on April 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, controlling method, and medium" was invented by Natsuko Sato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Kawasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image capturing unit including an imaging optical system and an image sensor; a rotation driving unit configured to drive the image capturing unit in a pan direction and/or tilt direction; a shift driving unit configured to drive at least one of the imaging optical system and the image sensor within a plane parallel to an imaging plane; and a synchronous control u...