US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 26 for "Apparatus that detects flicker, method of controlling apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,913, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus that detects flicker, method of controlling apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hiroyuki Furumochi (Tokyo) and Natsumi Kosuga (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor having a pixel area formed by pixels arranged in a matrix and output lines each for reading out a signal from the pixel area for each pixel row, and obtains a first image by performing image capturing. A flicker detection unit acquires flicker information on the first image, caused by a light source. The image sensor can operate ...