ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,734, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capture apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Hideki Ogura (Kanagawa, Japan), Akihiko Kanda (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Yashima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hideyuki Hamano (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture apparatus detects a subject area from an image that has been shot and enlarges a focus detection area in a case where the subject area is not detected or a reliability that the detected subject area corresponds to an intended subject is determined to be low. The image capture apparatus enlarges the focus detection area based o...