US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Automatic following and image blur correction of a subject" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,521, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Automatic following and image blur correction of a subject" was invented by Ryohei Ueno (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus is provided with an apparatus shake detection unit, an apparatus movement detection unit, a plurality of rotation units, and a lens barrel rotation driving unit. The image capturing apparatus detects subject information, and changes the image capturing direction of the image capturing unit by performing driving control of the rotation unit based on the detected subject information, and performs tracking control ...