ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,975, issued on May 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus" was invented by Takami Hirasawa (Tochigi, Japan), Yuichiro Kato (Tochigi, Japan), Toshimune Nagano (Saitama, Japan), Toru Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan), Masayasu Mizushima (Tochigi, Japan) and Akino Moriyoshi (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus comprises at least one of a sixth lens unit and an eighth lens unit being movable in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, a first shift driver or a second shift driver driving the sixth or eighth lens unit, a first shift position detector or a second shift position detect...