ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,839, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Movable apparatus and installation method for imaging device" was invented by Hironobu Hoshino (Tokyo) and Tomoaki Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to dispose an imaging device so that it can image a wide range with high resolution, a movable apparatus is configured such that a first imaging device is installed at a first installation position, the first imaging device including an optical system that forms an optical image, which has a low resolution region near an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region,...