US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 14 for "Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus capable of switching between driving modes" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,722, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus and image pickup apparatus capable of switching between driving modes" was invented by Yosuke Fukai (Kanagawa, Japan), Taro Murakami (Tokyo), Kiyoshi Nitto (Saitama, Japan), Yusuke Fujiwara (Tokyo) and Junichiro Iwamatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus attachable to an image pickup apparatus includes a first optical system, a second optical system, and a driving unit that moves at least one of the first optical system and the second optical system in an optical axis direction. The lens apparatus is configured to switch between...