US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 2 for "Image capturing apparatus, assisting method for focus control, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,508, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, assisting method for focus control, and storage medium" was invented by Tomohiro Hirama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises: an operation member used to move a position of focus lens included in an attached optical system; a recording unit that records the position of the focus lens as an index value in a memory in association with information of the attached optical system including the focus lens in response to a registration instruction; an acquisition unit that acquires information for identifyin...