US Patent Issued to Canon on March 4 for "Electronic apparatus capable of tracking object, control method for electronic apparatus, program, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,928, issued on March 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus capable of tracking object, control method for electronic apparatus, program, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihiro Funatsu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for an electronic apparatus includes tracking a tracking target included in an image, moving a tracking start position, starting tracking of the tracking target from the tracking start position, stopping tracking of the tracking target, controlling first processing for, at the stopping of tracking, setting the tracking start position to a position at which the...