US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 20 for "Monitoring apparatus, movable apparatus, and installation method for monitoring apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,971, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Monitoring apparatus, movable apparatus, and installation method for monitoring apparatus" was invented by Nobuhiro Oka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus has a first image capturing unit and a second image capturing unit. Each of the first image capturing unit and the second image capturing unit is provided with an image capturing element, and an optical system configured to form an optical image on a light receiving surface of the image capturing element at an ultrawide angle viewing angle in which a resolution of a second region that i...