Patent: Autofocus Related Patent Applications from Canon

For the folks that love reading/translating patents, here are three new ones uncovered by Northlight that are related to autofocus technologies.

Summarized by Northlight:

• [USPTO] Refining AF to correct for lens chromatic aberration.
• [USPTO] Using AF to refine and maintain manual focus setting
• [USPTO] Improving focus accuracy and automating focus adjustment over the range of lens settings

Additionally, here are some patent applications related to image files

• [USPTO] looks at ways of reducing moire in images by detecting it for correction in processing.
• [USPTO] looks at lossy RAW encoding for faster burst mode shooting