US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 20 for "Focusing apparatus for continuously keeping in focus, image pickup apparatus for continuously keeping in focus, focusing method for continuously keeping in focus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,071, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focusing apparatus for continuously keeping in focus, image pickup apparatus for continuously keeping in focus, focusing method for continuously keeping in focus, and storage medium" was invented by Maiko Takao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire, based on image data output from an image sensor, a first image plane position of an object and detection reliability, predict a second image plane position of the object based on a history of a defocus am...