US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Image stabilization control apparatus and method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,453, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image stabilization control apparatus and method" was invented by Tomomi Uesugi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Koichi Washisu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image stabilization control apparatus comprises: a first calculation unit that calculates a first shake reduction target value for reducing translational shake in a first direction using a first signal indicating translational shake in the first direction and a second signal indicating rotational shake about an axis in a second direction; a second calculation unit that calculates a second shake reduction target value...