ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,741, issued on Oct. 14, 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: "The imaging device images a wide range with high resolution, in a movable apparatus, an imaging device including an optical system forming an optical image having a low resolution region near an optical axis and a high resolution region outside the low resolution region on a light reception surface of an imaging element is installed at an installation position for imaging at least one of a horizontal dire...