US Patent Issued to Canon on July 14 for "Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method using gaze detection for object tracking" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,223, issued on July 14, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and control method using gaze detection for object tracking" was invented by Masafumi Kimura (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An imaging apparatus performs control to display first region information indicating a first region that is a region gazed at by a user and second region information indicating a second region that is a region of a main object within a region of a shot image region so as to be distinguishably superimposed on the shot image. In the above control, the imaging apparatus displays the first reg...