US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 12 for "Focus control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and focus control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,116, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and focus control method" was invented by Yu Inagaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focus control apparatus preforms a focus detection using a phase-difference detecting method, and controls a drive of a focus lens included in an optical system based on a focus detection result acquired by the focus detection. The focus control apparatus sets, in a search operation of acquiring the focus detection result while driving the focus lens in a search direction, a movable range of the focus lens based on the search directio...