US Patent Issued to CANON on April 15 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,042, issued on April 15, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Naoki Iwasaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an object detection unit configured to detect an object from an image signal, a discriminating unit configured to discriminate a type of the object, a setting unit configured to set a focus detection region divided in a plurality of sub-regions corresponding to the region of the object, a focus detection unit configured to detect information about an in-focus position for each of the plural...