US Patent Issued to CANON on Feb. 17 for "Capture control apparatus, capture control method, and image capture system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,823, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Capture control apparatus, capture control method, and image capture system" was invented by Takuya Hori (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a capture control apparatus that determines a specific subject in a captured area as a tracking target subject and controls a capture direction of a camera so as to track and capture the tracking target subject. While a video captured by the camera is selected as a specific video by an external selection apparatus, capture control apparatus does not change the tracking target subject to be tracked by the camera....