US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 7 for "Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,376, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Hiromi Kotoku (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus operable to obtain an image by capturing a subject image includes an orientation angle calculation unit configured to calculate an orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus, and a correction unit configured to perform correction based on the orientation angle of the image capturing apparatus so as to maintain a levelness of the image. The orientation angle calculation unit changes a method of calcul...