US Patent Issued to Canon on July 29 for "Electronic instrument, movable apparatus, distance calculation method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,068, issued on July 29, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic instrument, movable apparatus, distance calculation method, and storage medium" was invented by Shin Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuya Nobayashi (Tokyo), Makoto Oigawa (Kanagawa, Japan), Shigeo Kodama (Tokyo) and Tomoyuki Kawamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic instrument includes a first distance information acquisition unit acquiring first distance information corresponding to an object included in an image signal, at least one of a second distance information acquisition unit acquiring second distance information on the basis of a...