US Patent Issued to Canon on March 3 for "Focus adjustment apparatus and method, electronic device, and storage medium" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,309, issued on March 3, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Focus adjustment apparatus and method, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Yoshihito Tamaki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A focus detection unit detects a focus state in one or more areas based on image data, a subject detection unit detects a subject from an image of the image data and outputs subject information, a determination unit determines whether or not one or more predetermined conditions are satisfied based on at least one of shooting setting information and the subject information, and determines whether or not to perform adju...