US Patent Issued to Canon on Feb. 17 for "Imaging apparatus, control method of the same, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,798, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Imaging apparatus, control method of the same, 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 main subject is automatically determined, and the main subject is made flexibly changeable in accordance with the intention of the user. Provided is a control method of an imaging apparatus that includes identifying a main subject in image data that is to be used for a setting of an image capturing condition, and in a case where a field angle change operation equal to or larger than a pre...