US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 19 for "Optical system, image pickup apparatus, in-vehicle system, and moving apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,995, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Optical system, image pickup apparatus, in-vehicle system, and moving apparatus" was invented by Shuichi Kurokawa (Saitama, Japan), Makoto Takahashi (Tochigi, Japan) and Kazuhiro Inoko (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical system includes, in order from an enlargement conjugate side to a reduction conjugate side, a front unit including a plurality of lenses, an aperture stop, and a rear unit including a plurality of lenses. A projection characteristic of the optical system representing a relationship between a half angle of view and an image height on an...