ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,741, issued on March 24, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).
"Image pickup apparatus and control method therefor" was invented by Shun Nishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image pickup apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a specific object from an image picked up by an image pickup unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether a subject is a moving object, and a setting unit configured to set a sensitivity to be used when the determination unit determines that the subject is a moving object. The setting unit sets the sensitivity depending on whether the specific object is detected by th...