ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,249, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus for performing image recognition based on exposure conditions" was invented by Seigo Kaneko (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus including an image sensor that can set exposure conditions for each exposure area having one or more pixels, the image sensor capturing an image with the set exposure conditions, acquire an image recognition area where image recognition is to be performed by performing image processing on the image captured by the image sensor, to determine a transition setting of the exposure conditi...