US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 14 for "Apparatus having exposure control, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,735, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Apparatus having exposure control, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yoma Kuriki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, a detection unit configured to detect an object from the image, a photometry unit configured to perform photometry on the image in accordance with a set photometry mode, wherein the photometry mode includes a first photometry mode in which an exposure is determined by weighting a region having a relatively high luminance value in comparison with a ...