US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 30 for "Control apparatus that provides in-focus state with a tilt or shift effect, lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, camera system, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,394, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus that provides in-focus state with a tilt or shift effect, lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, camera system, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Kenta Koiwai (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Takeo Mori (Tochigi, Japan), Akino Moriyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan) and Toru Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is provided for a camera system that includes an image pickup apparatus including an image sensor and a lens appar...