US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Control apparatus for outputting registration information for object authentication to an external device, image pickup apparatus, and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,687, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus for outputting registration information for object authentication to an external device, image pickup apparatus, and control method" was invented by Shohei Katsuya (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Kubota (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control apparatus stores first feature information about a feature of a first object acquired from a first object area image of a first captured image and the first object area image as registration information for object authentication, detects an object from a captured image, acquires feature information about...