US Patent Issued to CANON on June 17 for "Control apparatus for deciding an area to perform focusing, image capturing apparatus, control method, and memory medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,615, issued on June 17, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for deciding an area to perform focusing, image capturing apparatus, control method, and memory medium" was invented by Keisuke Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes at least one processor that functions as a setting a plurality of focusing points by using object information that includes information on a part of an object and is based on an image signal converted from an object image, a selection unit configured to select, from the plurality of focusing points in a search area, a main focusing point on which foc...