US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 30 for "Stereoscopic optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,669, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Stereoscopic optical system and image pickup apparatus having the same" was invented by Maki Yokoya (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stereoscopic optical system includes two optical systems arranged in parallel. Each of the two optical systems includes a plurality of lens units that consist of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having negative refractive power, a second lens unit, and a third lens unit having positive refractive power. The first lens unit includes a first reflective member disposed closest to an image plane. ...