US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 3 for "Control apparatus for controlling focus of imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,969, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for controlling focus of imaging apparatus, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Masaki Kamba (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, configures the at least one processor to acquire a size of a subject in a captured image, calculate a difference between the acquired size of the subject and a target size, control a position of a zoom lens to reduce the calculated difference, identify a sea...