US Patent Issued to CANON on June 17 for "Image pickup apparatus including built-in optical filter, control method of image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,606, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus including built-in optical filter, control method of image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Sho Nagatsu (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuaki Yamana (Kanagawa, Japan), Yoshikazu Asai (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Totori (Tokyo), Keisuke Adachi (Tokyo), Shoma Mizutani (Tokyo) and Nagisa Inoue (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical filter movable between a first position at which the optical filter is inserted into an imaging range of the image sensor and a second position at wh...