US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 21 for "Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,517, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus used as action camera, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor" was invented by Takaaki Fukui (Chiba, Japan) and Takashi Kawakami (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus that eliminate manual change of an image pickup direction during picking up an image and can easily obtain an image that records experience while focusing attention on the experience. An image pickup unit picks up a wide-angle image. A face direction detection unit detects a direction of a face of a user. A user mo...