ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,512, issued on June 10, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image capturing apparatus and monitoring system" was invented by Aihiko Numata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor that controls an exposure time for each of a plurality of areas and sets an exposure time, based on luminance information for each of the plurality of areas in an image captured by the image sensor, and one or more processors that execute instructions comprising determining whether an autofocus mode for adjusting a focus position of an imaging optical system using a contrast evaluation value within an eval...