ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,869, issued on July 1, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus" was invented by Hideki Sakai (Sakura, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus includes an operation member that is rotatable by a user operation, a zoom lens configured to perform zooming in accordance with a rotation of the operating member, and a detector configured to divide an entire zoom range from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end, and detect a zoom position of the zoom lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied."
The patent was filed on Dec. 19, 2022, under Application No. 18/067,936.
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