US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 16 for "Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,726, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Kudo (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus includes a photometry unit that performs photometry of a subject, a focus detection unit that receives light from a subject and performs focus detection, and a control unit that controls an assist light device that emits assist light that illuminates a subject. The control unit controls, based on an output of the photometry unit, a light emission amount of the assist light device in such a manner t...