US Patent Issued to CANON on July 7 for "Electronic device, and control method of electronic device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,058, issued on July 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Electronic device, and control method of electronic device" was invented by Hideya Takanashi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to the present invention includes: a processor, and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to obtain information on a line-of-sight position of a user looking at a captured image, estimate, on a basis of the line-of-sight position of the user, an object to which a line of sight of the user is directed, and control, on a basis of at least one of a state...