US Patent Issued to Canon on July 1 for "Control apparatus for vibration actuator, and vibration driving apparatus, interchangeable lens, imaging apparatus, and automatic stage including same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,158, issued on July 1, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for vibration actuator, and vibration driving apparatus, interchangeable lens, imaging apparatus, and automatic stage including same" was invented by Jun Sumioka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a vibration actuator configured to relatively move a contact body in contact with a vibrator with respect to the vibrator using vibration occurring on the vibrator includes a control amount output unit including a trained model trained to, if an instruction about a first speed to relatively move the contact body with respect to ...