US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 26 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,902, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Atsushi Kato (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hirofumi Honda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes an optical zoom control unit configured to perform optical zoom, an electronic zoom control unit configured to perform electronic zoom, and a main control unit configured to control the optical zoom control unit and the electronic zoom control unit. The main control unit sets at least one of a start position and an end position of a first range in which the optical ...