ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,155, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Display control apparatus and control method" was invented by Yasuhiro Kuwabara (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an in-focus position on a live view image, and a display control unit configured to perform control to display an item indicating the in-focus position on the live view image, based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. The display control unit performs control to display a first item at a first in-focus position at which focus is continuous...