US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 25 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method, and recording medium with automated defocusing based on tilt control" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,793, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method, and recording medium with automated defocusing based on tilt control" was invented by Hiroaki Kimura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus comprises: an image sensor for generating an image signal from an object image formed by an imaging optical system; a tilt control unit configured to execute tilt control of tilting the image sensor with respect to a principal surface of the imaging optical system; a deriving unit configured to derive, by a phase difference detection pixel included in the i...