US Patent Issued to Canon on June 23 for "Image pickup apparatus with line-of-sight processing" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,131, issued on June 23, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus with line-of-sight processing" was invented by Takumi Takehara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect proximity of an object to a viewfinder, a line-of-sight detector configured to detect as line-of-sight information, using an eyeball image of a user who peers through the viewfinder, a position that the user gazes at in a display unit disposed inside the viewfinder, and a processor configured to determine whether or not to prohibit the display unit from being set to a no...