US Patent Issued to Canon on Oct. 7 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,152, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Naomi Mori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus configured to set a focus mode to autofocus for automatically focusing on a subject or manual focus for manually focusing on a subject includes a control unit configured to perform control to set the focus mode to the autofocus when a dual-purpose member configured to switch to be operated as a first member for manual focus operation or to be operated as a second member for an operation other than the manual focus oper...