US Patent Issued to CANON on July 22 for "Image pickup apparatus including pulse wave detection unit, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,972, issued on July 22, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus including pulse wave detection unit, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Hidemasa Yoshimura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of correctly determining an exposure permission period from a pulse wave signal. The image pickup apparatus comprising an image pickup portion, and a pulse wave detector configured to detect a pulse wave of a photographer who is holding a main body portion including the image pickup portion. The image pickup apparatus determines, based on a change amount of a pulse ...