US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 10 for "Image pickup apparatus, control method of image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,851, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, control method of image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Shun Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoshihito Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to photoelectrically convert an optical image formed by an optical system including a focus lens and to output image data, and a processor configured to control the focus lens, acquire information on a change start of an imaging direction from a pivoting driver configured to perform pivoting drive for at least one...