US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 11 for "Electronic apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,806, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic apparatus, its control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yasuyuki Suzuki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yosuke Mine (Tokyo), Koichi Ito (Tokyo) and Takeshi Uchida (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a proximity detector configured to detect proximity of an object to a viewfinder, a line-of-sight detector configured to detect line-of-sight information for a first display unit disposed inside the viewfinder, a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to determine an eye proximity ...