US Patent Issued to CANON on July 29 for "Imaging apparatus and control method thereof for image capturing according to change in subject image" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,826, issued on July 29, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus and control method thereof for image capturing according to change in subject image" was invented by Koji Oshima (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus acquires pixel signals for each region of a plurality of regions obtained by dividing an imaging plane having a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional pattern and detects a region among the plurality of regions in which a subject image has changed. The imaging apparatus determines an image capturing mode and controls to perform image capturing in the determined image...