ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,410, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pick up apparatus, and lens apparatus" was invented by Takehiko Sato (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera comprises a camera body for capturing an image formed by a lens apparatus including lenses, and an attitude sensor. A plurality of buttons (a first button and a second button) is arranged on an exterior portion of the lens apparatus, each of the plurality of buttons is assigned a function to be executed by operating the first button and the second button, respectively, and the assigned function is switched in accordance with the attitude of the ...