US Patent Issued to Canon on July 22 for "Electronic apparatus and method for controlling electronic apparatus using feature regions" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,842, issued on July 22, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus and method for controlling electronic apparatus using feature regions" was invented by Takuya Kosuge (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirofumi Urabe (Tokyo), Masahiro Sato (Tokyo) and Atsushi Ishii (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a position acquiring unit, and a control unit. The acquiring unit is configured to acquire an image. The position acquiring unit is configured to acquire a position of a display item which is displayed at a currently selected position in the image. The control unit, in a case...