ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,880, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Nobushige Wakamatsu (Tokyo), Shinnosuke Osawa (Yokohama, Japan), Ryota Ogawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Yuki Tsuihiji (Yokohama, Japan) and Yusuke Shimizu (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus is configured to change a shooting process based on data on a shot image. The image pickup apparatus is configured to, when the image pickup apparatus changes the shooting process, assign greater weights to the data on the shot image based on an instruction from a user than to the data on t...