US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Focus detection apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,236, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus detection apparatus and method, image capturing apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Maiko Takao (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subject detection unit detects a subject and characteristic area included in the subject from an image, a setting unit sets focus detection areas of a predetermined size in the subject and characteristic area, a detection unit detects a focus state in each focus detection area, and a selection unit selects a first area that satisfies a predetermined condition and a second area that includes the characteristic area from the ...