US Patent Issued to Canon on Sept. 16 for "Main object determination apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method for controlling main object determination apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,713, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Main object determination apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method for controlling main object determination apparatus" was invented by Tomohiro Nishiyama (Tokyo) and Reiji Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main object determination apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire images captured at different timings, a selection unit configured to select main object candidate(s) from objects in the images, a determination unit configured to determine whether the main object candidate(s) each selected at the respective di...