US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 2 for "Image capturing apparatus capable of suppressing detection of subject not intended by user, control method for image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,467, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image capturing apparatus capable of suppressing detection of subject not intended by user, control method for image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Tetsuya Hada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capturing apparatus obtains an image, a first detecting unit detects a specific subject from the image, a second detecting unit detects an identifier from the image, a decoding unit obtains information indicated by the detected identifier, a comparing unit compares a distance from a center of the photographing view angle of the image to a regio...