US Patent Issued to CANON on May 27 for "Focus control device capable of preventing object from being excluded from focusing target, focus controlling method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,962, issued on May 27, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus control device capable of preventing object from being excluded from focusing target, focus controlling method, and storage medium" was invented by Hideyasu Hongu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Taira Komatsuzaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focus control device that is capable of preventing an object intended by a user from being excluded from a focusing target. The focus control device performs focus adjustment by using one of autofocus and manual focus. When focus control is switched from the autofocus to the manual focus, and then switched to the autofocus, whethe...