US Patent Issued to Canon on June 17 for "Image pickup apparatus that performs automatic shooting, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,624, issued on June 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus that performs automatic shooting, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Nobushige Wakamatsu (Tokyo) and Katsuhiro Ito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of performing automatic shooting suitable for a subject moving a lot. The apparatus includes an image pickup portion configured to output an image of a subject formed by an image pickup optical system, and a drive portion configured to rotate the image pickup portion about an axis. In the apparatus, one or more controllers detects a...