US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 30 for "Control apparatus, control method, image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,442, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, image pickup apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Hideyasu Hongu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Toshihiko Tomosada (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus is configured to control a display unit configured to superimpose and display a captured image captured by an image sensor and display items indicating in-focus degrees of a plurality of focus detecting areas in the captured image. The control apparatus includes a memory that stores a set of instructions, and at least one processor that executes the set of ...