US Patent Issued to CANON on July 14 for "Focus adjustment apparatus capable of predicting an in-focus position of a subject and method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,234, issued on July 14, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus adjustment apparatus capable of predicting an in-focus position of a subject and method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Keisuke Midorikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focus adjustment apparatus comprising: a detection unit that detects first and second parts of a subject from an image; an acquisition unit that acquires focus states of the first and second parts; a storage unit that stores the focus states of the first and second parts; a prediction unit that, based on the focus states of the first and second parts of an imag...