US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Lens apparatus that transmits tilt-shift information to attached image pickup apparatus and image pickup apparatus attachable to the lens apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,753, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Lens apparatus that transmits tilt-shift information to attached image pickup apparatus and image pickup apparatus attachable to the lens apparatus" was invented by Kazuto Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lens apparatus attachable to and detachable from an image pickup apparatus includes an imaging optical system that includes at least one optical member configured to move so as to change at least one of a tilt effect of tilting a focal plane relative to an imaging plane of an image sensor included in the image pickup apparatus and a shift effect o...