US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on March 18 for "Focusing control device, lens device, imaging device, focusing control method, focusing control program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,742, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Focusing control device, lens device, imaging device, focusing control method, focusing control program" was invented by Koichi Tanaka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focusing control device includes: a sensor that has a plurality of pairs of signal detection units each including a first signal detection unit that receives one of a pair of beams passed through different parts of an imaging optical system including a focus lens and detects a signal depending on an intensity of received light and a second signal detection unit that receives other one of...