US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 12 for "Image pickup device capable of performing image pickup in a plurality of image-pickup modes in parallel and control method thereof" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,114, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup device capable of performing image pickup in a plurality of image-pickup modes in parallel and control method thereof" was invented by Masayoshi Tsunoda (Kanagawa, Japan), Satoru Matsumoto (Tokyo) and Nari Miyoshi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup device having a plurality of lenses with angles of view different from one another, includes at least one memory and at least one processor which function as: an accepting unit configured to accept a switching operation of switching a lens to be used for image pickup when an image is picked up in a...