US Patent Issued to CANON on Aug. 19 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,270, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Shohei Funamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a processor configured to detect a gaze point of a user on an image based on a visual line, acquire at least one feature area detected using the image, set at least one selection determining area each corresponding to one of the one feature area, select as a main object area a first feature area among the at least one feature area when the gaze point is included in the first feature area, select as ...