US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 25 for "Control apparatus, optical apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,118, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, optical apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Rumi Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for an optical apparatus that includes a member and an actuator configured to drive the member includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to switch a control method for the actuator between a first control method and a second control method configured to make a driving sound generated by the actuator in the second control method smaller than a driving sound g...