US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Imaging apparatus, method for controlling imaging apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,429, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, method for controlling imaging apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage" was invented by Fumiaki Mizutani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Jun Iba (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus includes: a detector configured to detect a surface position of an object by receiving a second electromagnetic wave of which wavelength is shorter than a first electromagnetic wave; a focusing device configured to collect the first electromagnetic wave reflected on the object; at least one memory and at least one processor which function as...