ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,400, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, optical apparatus, and control method" was invented by Taiki Homma (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus controls a drive speed of a movable optical member of an optical apparatus based on operation information on an operation member by setting first control that has a first speed as a maximum speed, and second control that has a second speed lower than the first speed as a maximum speed. The control apparatus provides a first speed range for making equal drive speeds for the same operation information, and a second speed rang...