ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,700, issued on June 3, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, control method, control apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Shoma Mizutani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor configured to receive light and accumulate charges, a vibration generator configured to generate vibration, an image sensor control unit configured to cause the image sensor to perform an electronic front curtain operation to start accumulating the charges, and an electronic rear curtain operation to finish accumulating the charges, and a vibration control unit configured to contr...