US Patent Issued to Canon on March 25 for "Image pickup apparatus that performs image pickup control for case where faces of multiple persons are detected at the time of image pickup, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,108, issued on March 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus that performs image pickup control for case where faces of multiple persons are detected at the time of image pickup, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Kotaro Oguma (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus which is capable of preventing faces of persons from being partially cut off in an image at the time of image pickup in a case where a subject includes a plurality of persons. The image pickup apparatus has a plurality of lenses with different angles of view including at least a first lens...