US Patent Issued to CANON on Nov. 4 for "Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, recording medium, and image capturing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,225, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, image capturing apparatus, control method, recording medium, and image capturing system" was invented by Tatsuya Hanayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus controls an operation of an image capturing apparatus that obtains, through automatic shooting with a variable composition, an image to be sold to a user. The apparatus obtains demand information indicating demand tendencies of a user in relation to compositions of a subject, sets, based on the obtained demand information, frequencies of adoption to shooting respectively for a plu...