US Patent Issued to Canon on Dec. 30 for "Focus control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and focus control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,393, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and focus control method" was invented by Yohei Matsui (Kanagawa, Japan), Hideki Ogura (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Yashima (Kanagawa, Japan), Kuniaki Sugitani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akihiko Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to perform focus tracking on an object within a detection area to detect a defocus amount within an imaging angle of view includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform focus tracking determination to deter...