US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 9 for "Detecting apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and detecting method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,208, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Detecting apparatus, image pickup apparatus, and detecting method" was invented by Takayuki Akaguma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detecting apparatus performs focus detection using a pair of focus detecting signals obtained from an image sensor, detects flicker using a flicker detecting signal obtained from the image sensor, and controls signal readout from the image sensor. The detecting apparatus switches between a first readout state for performing signal readout for generating the pair of focus detecting signals from each of the first pixel and the second pixel,...