US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 16 for "Control apparatus including driving unit, lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,782, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus including driving unit, lens apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masami Ichinose (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus for a camera system that includes an image pickup apparatus and a lens apparatus including a driven unit, an output unit that is supplied with power from the image pickup apparatus, an actuator configured to move the driven unit includes a driving unit configured to drive the actuator by a PWM output method or a linear output method using the power from the ...