US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 27 for "Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus that provide different focus control modes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,019, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus that provide different focus control modes" was invented by Yasuhiro Hatakeyama (Tokyo) and Koji Okada (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus connected to a camera, includes: a focus lens; a driving unit which drives the focus lens; an operation input unit; a mode switcher that switches between first and second modes relating to selection between AF and MF and a selection of an operation target of the operation input unit, and a controller, in which the controller, in the first mode, controls the driving uni...