US Patent Issued to Canon on March 18 for "Imaging apparatus mounted on moving object and moving object including imaging apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,139, issued on March 18, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus mounted on moving object and moving object including imaging apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Yano (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus provided in a moving object to capture an image of an area behind the moving object includes an imaging circuit and an optical system. The imaging circuit outputs an image based on an optical image input to a light-receiving surface. The optical system inputs the optical image to the imaging circuit. The optical system forms a first region at a first magnification and a second region at ...