US Patent Issued to Canon on March 24 for "Image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,750, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Image pickup apparatus, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Yasuyoshi Miyazaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a sensor configured to pick up images, a setting device configured to set a photometry mode, and at least one processor and a memory storing instructions that cause the processor to function as a first calculation unit configured to calculate a first value from a whole of a region of an image, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a second value from, out of the region, a region whose value is a pr...