US Patent Issued to CANON on July 29 for "Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium thatdetermine a main object to be focused on" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,804, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium thatdetermine a main object to be focused on" was invented by Masato Sanno (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is configured to control an image pickup apparatus that is configured to acquire image data. The control apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire an area for focus detection set to the image data, and a determining unit configured to determine as a main object that is a target to be focused on, one of a first object determined from at least one obje...