US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 27 for "Scene control apparatus, scene control method, image capture apparatus, and virtual studio system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,034, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Scene control apparatus, scene control method, image capture apparatus, and virtual studio system" was invented by Satoru Kobayashi (Tokyo), Gou Yamashita (Kanagawa, Japan), Toshimasa Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ayako Furesawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scene control apparatus capable of suppressing changes in exposure settings of a camera that captures video with an image as the background is disclosed. The apparatus acquires information relating to luminance of a captured scene of an image capture apparatus and determines, based on the information, whether a...