ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,819, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus for setting position for performing enlargement display from entire image region, control method for image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Junichi Imamiya (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus capable of visually indicates to a user whether or not execution of autofocusing at a set position is possible is provided. The apparatus includes a pickup device, and at least one processor and/or at least one circuit configured to function as a setting unit that sets a focus adjustment region, a detecting unit that ...