ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,076, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Katsumi Ohmori (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan) and Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes a shift lens movable in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of an imaging optical system, an actuator configured to drive the shift lens in a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to control the actuator. The actuator includes a first a...