ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,147, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control apparatus, image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Takumi Tsuchiya (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazunori Takayama (Tokyo) and Yuji Omori (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes an acquiring unit configured to acquire information about three-dimensional space obtained using a distance measuring unit and information about a three-dimensional figure specified by a user, a determining unit configured to determine a search area based on the information about the three-dimensional space and the information about...