US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 21 for "Imaging system, and control apparatus and imaging apparatus constituting same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,538, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging system, and control apparatus and imaging apparatus constituting same" was invented by Tomoaki Komiyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuki Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Koyo Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes an input unit to which receives an image, a first detection unit configured to detect an object from the received image, a second detection unit configured to detect a start of movement of the detected object, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the start of movement is detected, control an imaging range of an imaging apparatus ba...