US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 28 for "Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium storing program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,416, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium storing program" was invented by Naoki Maruyama (Tokyo) and Junya Mizutani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors that, upon execution of the stored instructions, are configured to perform determination processing to determine a focus degree of each of two or more partial areas in a captured image acquired by a camera, and select, based on the determined focus degree of each of the two or more partial areas, a subject detect...