US Patent Issued to CANON on Dec. 30 for "Image pickup apparatus used for thermal sensation presentation apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,375, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus used for thermal sensation presentation apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium" was invented by Yukihiro Kogai (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takahiro Usami (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus capable of recording temperature information on a subject appropriately narrowed down as a target. The image pickup apparatus acquires a visible light image and an invisible light image, acquires a detection result(s) by detecting a subject(s) on a basis of the visible light image, acquires an identification result(s) by identi...