US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 16 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,153, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, lens apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshiki Saji (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan), Akino Moriyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan), Toru Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan), Takami Hirasawa (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroki Osaka (Tochigi, Japan), Takeo Mori (Tokyo) and Yuki Matsuba (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to ...