US Patent Issued to Canon on March 25 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,113, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Koji Inoue (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire a position of an optical system based on an image signal, and a predicting unit configured to predict an in-focus position of the optical system based on the position acquired by the acquiring unit. The acquiring unit acquires the position of the optical system by performing interpolation processing in a range equal to or wider than an interval between first accu...