ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,609, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus and lens barrel" was invented by Wenying Ye (Tokyo), Kazunori Masuda (Saitama, Japan) and Yoshikazu Inagaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, a lens, and an electric module disposed outside the lens when viewed in a first direction. The electric module includes a first inductor, a first transformer, a second inductor, and a second transformer. A second terminal of the first inductor is connected to a third terminal of the first primary winding. A fifth terminal of the second inductor is connected...